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Shortage of teachers and unavailability of basic infrastructure in six engineering colleges of Bihar has badly hit the academic environment of these institutions. According to report, hardly 40 teachers including the principals of the institutions are running the entire colleges.

Besides, there is vacancy of 300 permanent teachers, yet government has taken no initiative to fill the backlog. Resultantly, most of these institutions are being run by guest faculty. This has forced many students to migrate to other state for higher education.

Principal of the Motihari Engineering College, SN Ojha said, "We manage everything with the help of a guest faculty."  The college has only seven permanent teachers to teach its 750 students.

The Chandi engineering college also has only seven teachers, and the same situation persists in the Gaya and Darbhanga engineering colleges also. The students of four new engineering colleges, set up by the Nitish Kumar government, observed an indefinite hunger strike on Oct 18 to press their demands for more academic staff. They later called off their stir following assurance of the government.

It may be mentioned here that more than 200,000 students of Bihar have been studying in various engineering colleges, both government and private, outside the state, including the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), the National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and in hundreds of other colleges in Bangalore, Chennai, New Delhi, Pune, Bhubaneswar, Bhopal, Jaipur and even those in Imphal and Srinagar.

(source- iGovernment)