hyderabad while students are joining in droves for courses in emerging tech in engineering colleges the shortage of trained teachers in these subjects is yet to be addressed even four years after emerging tech courses were started in the state many colleges still do not have required faculty to teach artificial intelligence ai machine learning ml and internet of things iot among other coursesaccording to teachers at least 80 of colleges do not have the required faculty to teach these subjects the faculty working in various engineering colleges in telangana said they are forced to teach these subjects even without having the expertise worse there is no proper material books labs or even research available on these subjectsour college is offering three of these emerging tech courses including aiml and data sciences but we dont even have a single faculty to teach these subjects in fact i am forced to take one of these courses i am learning and teaching students parallelly said m upendra kumar a computer science professor who has been a teacher for almost 25 yearsthese courses are just business for colleges this wont sustain as there is shortage of faculty kumar addedm vara prasad rao who has been teaching for the last 23 years said that while aiml and data sciences can be handled by cse faculty the same is not true for subjects such as block chain iot and business systems neither universities nor managements care about the standard of teaching the least they can do is conduct faculty development programmes said prasad raosome of the faculty however said that a few top colleges have tied up with thirdparty companies so that their students have access to virtual labs and classeswe have tied up with a private firm which gives access for 40 hours to our students but these courses are expensive as it is costing us around 40 lakh not all colleges can afford it unless varsities tie up with top institutes such as iits and nits not all students will get access to quality education in these subjects said raghavender k a professor who has been teaching for 18 yearsin an effort to help colleges jawaharlal nehru technological university hyderabad jntuh has decided to live stream classes from the university apart from using the faculty working at the university jntuh will also be roping in industry experts