Jamshedpur: Six BEd colleges in Jharkhand, including one in Ranchi, have lost recognition from the 2018 academic session.

Recognition was withdrawn from St Xavier's College (Ranchi), Radha Govind Teachers' Training College and Swami Ram Krishna Paramhansa Teacher Training College (Ramgarh), Tathagat Teachers' Training College and Rajiv Gandhi Memorial Teachers' Training College (Dhanbad) and ARS BEd College (Bokaro) at a meeting of Eastern Regional Committee-National Council for Teacher Education (ERC-NCTE) in Bhubaneswar held earlier this month.

De-recognised under Section 17(1) of the NCTE Act, 1993, the grounds included infrastructure lacunae, fewer number of faculty members or lesser pay scale than mandated and non-compliance to NCTE norms.

All private colleges, each of them offered 100 BEd seats. Though the existing 600 students will not be affected, no new BEd admissions will be permitted at these colleges from 2018 onwards.

The meeting chaired by Kolhan University vice chancellor Shukla Mahanty was held on October 8-9, but colleges concerned are yet to get circulars as they will open on October 29 after Diwali-Chhath vacation. An NCTE (eastern zone) official said these colleges were affiliated between 2002 and 2009.

"After that, NCTE teams had inspected them (colleges) and asked them to reply to queries with satisfactory answers, which they did not or gave vague replies. The letters were sent somewhere between 2014 and 2015. It has been a long-drawn process. Now, the committee has de-recognised them and these colleges can't seek admission from the 2018-20 session," the official added.

He said the BEd facility of St Xavier's College in Ranchi lacked a psychology resource centre, was one lecturer short and had not submitted to NCTE their faculty list or the original fixed deposit receipts of endowment and reserve funds.

The committee also notified that in case students pursue BEd degrees at these derecognised institutions from 2018, those would be considered invalid for jobs.

It was also decided at the meeting that all recognised BEd colleges would submit a list of 10 schools each, duly signed by the district education officer, to send its aspiring teachers for the mandatory four-month practical (classroom) training.