Comparative study of performance of constituent and affiliated agricultural colleges in Maharashtra

Abstract

In Maharashtra at present having 156 affiliated agriculture and allied colleges which are highest number of agricultural colleges in the country, in which 11990 students admitted in affiliated colleges and 2717 students admitted in constituent colleges. Due to affiliated agricultural colleges, more number of students admitted for under graduate courses in agriculture and allied branches. As advent of these affiliated colleges, many issues are raised regarding quality of education maintained by these colleges. Therefore it has been planned to study the performance of affiliated agricultural colleges in comparison with constituent agricultural colleges. In all 40 agricultural colleges (13 constituent agricultural colleges and 27 affiliated agricultural colleges) were purposively selected from all State Agricultural Universities in Maharashtra.The study revealed that, majority of the affiliated agricultural colleges i.e. 62.97 per cent were found in ‘C’ grade followed by 22.22 per cent in ‘D’ grade, 11.11 per cent colleges had got ‘B’ grade. While only 3.70 per cent colleges were found in ‘A’ grade. Regarding constituent agricultural colleges, it was observed that, more than half of the colleges i.e. 53.85 per cent were having ‘A’ grade followed by 30.77 per cent colleges got ‘B’ grade and 15.38 per cent colleges were having ‘C’ grade. There was not a single college found in ‘D’ grade.