Daijiworld Media Network – Bengaluru (MS)

Bengaluru, Jul 18: Since three years, not a single student has enrolled in 541 unaided private PU colleges of the state. As per rule, admissions will be prohibited in such colleges. But due to Covid situation, the government has given conditional approval for a year.

According to rule at least 40 students should get enrolled in such colleges. Once the admission process is over, the PU department will undertake inspection. If it is found during the visit that the college has basic infrastructure and teaching staff to teach 40 students, then such colleges will be allowed to run for the academic year 2022-23 according to the information provided by officials of the PU department.

PU education department board (file photo)

The PU education department released the district wise list of PU colleges with zero admission. In 32 districts not a single student got enrolled in the 541 colleges. Bengaluru tops the list with 154 such colleges. If a college has zero admissions for three consecutive years, then such colleges need to be closed down as per rule.

There are more than 5,200 PU colleges in the state. Out of this 1,203 are government, 3,300 are private unaided and 697 are private aided colleges.

Bengaluru south has 93, Bengaluru North 61, Bijapur 26, Tumakuru and Mysuru 24 each, Kalaburagi 23, Chitradurga 21, Davanagere 19, Dharwad and Bidar 18 each, Chikkaballapur 16, Chikkodi 17, Belagavi, Hassan and Mandya 15 each, Raichur 14, Ballari 13, Bagalkot 11, Kolar and Mangaluru 10 each, Haveri, Yadagir eight each, Udupi seven, Chamarajanagar, Chikkamagaluru, Ramanagara, Gadag and Kodagu six each, Koppal and Shivamogga five each and Uttara Kannada three such colleges.