Commissioner Secretary Higher Education Dr. Asgar Hassan Samoon today said all the college campuses of the state will go cashless soon besides the students would be facilitated with Digital learning programmes shortly.“It will provide a single unified credential for all transactions and privileges across the campus besides ensuring seamless and cashless business with greater efficiency and accuracy,” Samoon asserted adding that “We have almost finalized the tie-up with cellular operators for providing seamless Wifi services in these campuses across J&K.”Samoon was speaking at a review meeting of the department held here today which was attended by Nithi Gupta Special Secretary Higher Education, Abdul Majeed Dar Joint Director Planning Higher Education, Director NIELT A H Moon, SE R&B Jammu, General Manager JKPCC and others officers of the department besides principal of state colleges through video conferencing facility.To achieve the cashless campuses project, Dr Samoon asked the officers to form a committee of computer professors who will be given orientation courses by experts of NIELT to further carry out programmes of computer literacy in the colleges.In this regard, one day programme of computer literacy sensitization will be conducted for College Principals of Jammu region here.
Later, a similar programme will be conducted for Principals of Kashmir division.Dr Asghar Samoon took a detailed review of the developmental works going in colleges of Jammu and Kashmir divisions. He also directed the JKPCC and R&B Department to pace up the college constructions works undertaken by them. The Commissioner Secretary impressed upon the Principals to submit the APIs of professors in time bound manner.He Directed the Administrative department to constitute state quality assurance cell as per UGC guidelines and strictly adopt UGC guidelines for placement/promotion of Assistant and Associate Professors. Mr Samoon also urged the Principals to constitute Internal Quality Control Assurance cells in their respective colleges as per UGC guidelines and assess their performance periodically.“Principals should scrutinize and annually review the API scores of assistant professors and associate professors besides maintaining proper records of IQAC for review by SQAC,” Samoon told the meeting.