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The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG<\/a>) has slammed the state of higher Education<\/a> in Odisha in its recent report tabled in the assembly.<\/p>\n

The report said gross enrolment ratio (GER) of 22.1% in Odisha between 2014 and 2019 is below the national Average<\/a> of 26.30%. It slammed the for not devising specific plan to improve the ratio.<\/p>\n

Despite SC\/ST Population<\/a> comprising around 40% of the states total population, the report said the GER and gender parity index of SC\/ST categories remained below the national average.
Even as the state government has established theOdisha State Higher Education Councilto promote higher education and research in the state through planning and reforms, the CAG said objective of the council remained largely unfulfilled as the body has not prepared any plan.<\/p>\n

The CAG also pointed out poor functioning of career counselling cells inUtkal University(UU),North Odisha University(NOU) and 32 known degree colleges. It said there was less than optimal functioning or complete absence of placement and career counselling cells and job fairs in these institutions while amount released to organize the job fair remained unutilized.<\/p>\n

On an average 26.10% students of UU and 3.79% students of NOU could get placements through placements cells\/job fairs between 2014 and 2019. UU and NOU had facilitated placement of 1,089 and 70 students, respectively, through job fairs during the period, said the CAG in its report.<\/p>\n

The Percentage<\/a> of students who qualified in different competitive examinations in UU ranged between 2.23% and 27.10% from 2014-19, except in 2015-16, when it was 40.19%. In NOU, the percentage of students who qualified in competitive examinations ranged between 3.50 and 7.72% during this period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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