State higher education has low student count

KOLKATA: Though the Mamata Banerjee government has established 31new colleges and 13 new universities in four years, it fell short in terms of infrastructure and student enrolment count in a country-wide study on higher education. With nine colleges per lakh popula tion, West Bengal is way below the allIndia average of 25 colleges per lakh population. Telangana tops the chart with 54 colleges per lakh population, followed by Andhra Pradesh with 44...