JNTU cracks whip against colleges

Move comes in wake of several colleges terminating services of staff, which is against rules of the varsity

CITY BUREAU

Hyderabad 20.04.2020

Cracking the whip on erring private affiliated colleges, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University-Hyderabad (JNTU-H) has sought information on the total number of staff members and salaries paid to them during the lockdown.

Information like total number of teaching and non-teaching staff on rolls of the colleges and number of teachers and staff members who were terminated before and after the announcement of lockdown by the State government has been sought from the colleges.

Specify reasons

The managements were asked to specify reasons under each category while giving out details. The move by JNTU-H comes in wake of several private affiliated colleges reportedly terminating services of the teaching and non-teaching staff in the lockdown period which was against rules of the varsity.

A circular to this effect has been sent to all the affiliated autonomous and non-autonomous colleges. Apart from details on the terminations, the university also sought information regarding the number of new appointments in the colleges.

According to the university rules, private colleges cannot issue termination/ appointment orders to the faculty members without the university’s permission during the lockdown period.

However, in case of any emergency, if the college wants to terminate the service of faculty (s), it should be done through mutual consent between college and faculty as per the service rules of the college and with an intimation to university in advance.

The private colleges were instructed to submit details of faculty and staff who were fully or partially or no salary paid before and after the announcement of lockdown.