patna even as hajipurbased vishun roy college has been derecognized by the bihar school examination board following the intermediate examination result scam there are many more such colleges in the sate operating in a similar manner only a thorough inquiry into the functioning of these colleges can reveal the truth there are about 450 affiliated degree colleges in the state but hardly 100 of them can be called an educational institution most of them are virtually education shops where degrees are sold at a premium there are neither infrastructure facilities nor qualified teachers in these colleges and consequently their students are sent up for examinations without attending even a single class the examination results of students are managed by the college authorities as per the pocket of their guardians the ugc affiliation of colleges by universities regulations 2009 categorically provide that any institution seeking affiliation from a university must have undisputed ownership of land not less than two acres in metropolitan cities and five acres in other areas administrative academic and other buildings with sufficient accommodation adequate library and laboratory facilities sufficient space for sports and games common rooms canteens health centres and hostels besides the college must have sufficient number of teachers and nonteaching staff as per the norms needless to say hardly any affiliated college fulfils the criteria laid down by the ugc academics wonder how these institutions managed to get affiliation from the university concerned magadh university mu has more than 85 affiliated colleges under its jurisdiction but most of them exist only on paper very few of these colleges fulfil the mandatory requirements of affiliation while some have no land of their own others have managed affiliation after submitting forged documents of land almost all of them lack competent teaching staff most teachers appointed by governing bodies have never faced any commission for regularization of their services said mu provc kriteshwar prasad ever since the state government started doling out grants to affiliated colleges on the basis of examination results of students the college authorities started working for ensuring better results by hook or crook so that they could get handsome grants they collect money from the students and manage exam centres evaluation centres and also final tabulation of results this unhealthy practice is likely to grow in the coming years if the quantum of grant sanctioned by the government is not delinked from the results said a retired teacher of veer kunwar singh university unaided degree colleges get payment as per the academic performance of students for every student who secure first second and third divisions the college concerned gets rs 8500 rs 8000 and rs 7500 respectively for girl students in each category additional rs 200 is added as early as 1891 the british government had initiated a scheme of making salary payment to teachers on the basis of performance of students with a view to promoting sanskrit education but owing to grave irregularities in the results of examinations conducted by bihar sanskrit sanjeevan