Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 22: Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad has demanded permanent appointments of teachers in the colleges and immediate engagement of adequate faculty on academic arrangement till the permanent appointments are made.
Addressing a press conference, here today, ABVP Jammu Kashmir State Secretary Mukesh Manhas explained that every year Higher Education Department engages 800 teaching staff on the basis of academic arrangement in the colleges of Jammu division but this year only 650 teachers were engaged after Ist round of counselling.
Owing to this, he added, classes of the students are badly affected and there are many such colleges where the concerned subject teacher is not available and classes are being taken by the teachers of other subject
He further said the Higher Education Department has done only one round of counselling this year for the session 2022-23 wherein approximately 400 teachers were engaged from the sanctioned strength of the colleges and around 300 those teachers were engaged who had filed court cases. “More than 100 vacancies of teachers are still vacant in the degree colleges,” he said.
The ABVP leader urged the Principal Secretary Higher Education that second round of counseling should be done with immediate effect and all remaining vacancies should be filled up on the basis of academic arrangements not as Guest Faculty.
He stressed that the Government must fill up all the permanent faculty positions in the degree colleges at the earliest so that the education of the students may not suffer.
Others who were present in the press conference, included Ramnik Sharma, State Joint Secretary ABVP Jammu Kashmir, Akshi Billowaria, State Girls Incharge and Hariom Sharma, Jammu Mahanagar Secretary.
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