Fill posts with Annamalai Univ excess staff, univs told
Sambath.Kumar@timesgroup.com
Trichy:23.08.2019
The higher education department has directed state-run universities to consider only redeployment of surplus teaching staff of Annamalai University to fill up their vacant teaching posts. In fact, the deputy secretary, higher education department, in a letter dated August 1 also asked the universities to furnish reasons if they were not considering the same.
While redeployment has been happening for the last three years and a few government orders too have been passed in this regard, the higher education department was forced to insist on the same as there were still a few hundred excess staff to be redeployed. Besides, Annamalai University vice-chancellor had also written to the department requesting it to inform universities which require teaching staff in various disciplines to redeploy the remaining staff.
However, Bharathidasan University (BDU) is one of the first to advertise for filling 54 vacant teaching posts without considering the redeployment. Commenting on the issue, S Sivasubramanian, former vicechancellor, Bharathiar University, feels there may not be any issues in filling up the 54 posts as due process has been followed by the university in the process of filling vacant posts. Since the university has gone ahead with the process, redeployment of staff can happen in other universities, he added.
Speaking to TOI, higher education secretary Mangat Ram Sharma said most of the excess staff in Annamalai university have already been redeployed in government arts and engineering colleges across the state. “Now there are about 400-odd teaching staff still remaining to be redeployed. Given the fact that about 1,000 teaching posts remain vacant in 13 universities, even after redeployment, all the universities will have sizeable posts to be filled,” he said. He further said universities are free to fill 75-80% of vacant posts on their own after redeploying the surplus teaching staff of Annamalai university.
“The latest order is not the first on redeployment, so it is surprising that BDU could evade several government orders. There is no doubt that quality can only be upheld if efficient staff are recruited, but a public university should not be apathetic about the plight of teachers in other universities,” said former president of Association of University Teachers, K Pandiyan.
Sambath.Kumar@timesgroup.com
Trichy:23.08.2019
The higher education department has directed state-run universities to consider only redeployment of surplus teaching staff of Annamalai University to fill up their vacant teaching posts. In fact, the deputy secretary, higher education department, in a letter dated August 1 also asked the universities to furnish reasons if they were not considering the same.
While redeployment has been happening for the last three years and a few government orders too have been passed in this regard, the higher education department was forced to insist on the same as there were still a few hundred excess staff to be redeployed. Besides, Annamalai University vice-chancellor had also written to the department requesting it to inform universities which require teaching staff in various disciplines to redeploy the remaining staff.
However, Bharathidasan University (BDU) is one of the first to advertise for filling 54 vacant teaching posts without considering the redeployment. Commenting on the issue, S Sivasubramanian, former vicechancellor, Bharathiar University, feels there may not be any issues in filling up the 54 posts as due process has been followed by the university in the process of filling vacant posts. Since the university has gone ahead with the process, redeployment of staff can happen in other universities, he added.
Speaking to TOI, higher education secretary Mangat Ram Sharma said most of the excess staff in Annamalai university have already been redeployed in government arts and engineering colleges across the state. “Now there are about 400-odd teaching staff still remaining to be redeployed. Given the fact that about 1,000 teaching posts remain vacant in 13 universities, even after redeployment, all the universities will have sizeable posts to be filled,” he said. He further said universities are free to fill 75-80% of vacant posts on their own after redeploying the surplus teaching staff of Annamalai university.
“The latest order is not the first on redeployment, so it is surprising that BDU could evade several government orders. There is no doubt that quality can only be upheld if efficient staff are recruited, but a public university should not be apathetic about the plight of teachers in other universities,” said former president of Association of University Teachers, K Pandiyan.
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