The University Grants Commission (UGC) has asked all central universities to identify reasons for teaching posts lying vacant and make concerted efforts to fill them up. Of the 16,692 sanctioned teaching posts, 6,251 are lying vacant in these universities. Union Human Resource Development Minister, Smriti Irani in a written reply said, “UGC recently wrote to all central universities to give topmost priority for identifying the causes for the vacancies and make concerted efforts to fill up the vacancies as per UGC norms, at an early date to ensure that the teaching work of the university is not affected.” The issue was also discussed prominently in the conference of the vice-chancellors (VCs) of central universities on 6 and 7 February under the chairmanship of the President, in which they were exhorted to fill up the vacancies in a timebound manner. “As a follow-up, the ministry has written to all VCs to implement the decision on a priority and to furnish an action-taken report to the ministry,” minister said. She said that a task force, constituted under the chairmanship of Sanjay G.Dhande to recommend measures for reducing shortage of qualified faculty in July 2011, had said that shortage of qualified faculty in state and central universities was roughly 40 per cent and 35 per cent respectively, reported Live Mint.
Posted on: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 07:49:58 +0000
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