Although the national education policy (NEP) 2020 proposes several reforms to empower teachers and restore respect and high status’ for this applicable profession will bring the smartest thoughts, there seems to be a serious crisis of human resources in several central universities, as posts The faculty lay empty.
It seems at least 14 central universities throughout the country have more than 40% of their teaching positions affected by empty prayers with two of them having more than 70% of vacancies, education minister Union Dharmendra Pradhan shares data in the recent parliamentary session.
While the University of Delhi (DU) is said to have the highest number of jobs with 846 posts 1,706 which are subject to empty sanctions, the University of Allahabad is said to have 598 of the 863 posts of empty teaching, data claims.
This revealed further that of the 18,911 position teaching sanctions at 45 central universities, more than 6,000 were empty lying.
More than 50% or 23 of 44 universities have more than 30% of vacancies and there are only three universities with less than 20% of vacancies.
Of the total 45 central universities, 33.4% of the approved teaching position lay empty on April 1, 2021.
Tiring process
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“The appointment of faculty members is a time-consuming process that requires the presence of prospective visitors (at certain universities such as DU, President is visitor), HODS, Dean and representation of all categories for the selection process.
To fill around 800 posts, it may take place more than A year to complete the recruitment process, “said the acting of the Deputy Chancellor of PC Joshi, added that he could only appoint 44 faculty members for five months after completing all formalities.
“For 30 vacancies, for example, we can receive 3,000 applications.
Our job is to give each candidate for fair opportunities, even if it means interviewing 50 candidates for three days,” he said.
The number of vacancies will also rise with each year passed because the senior faculty retired, therefore, recruitment, said Joshi, must be taken on the war footing.
“DU has employed the guest faculty to tide due to lack of faculty, and they were also recruited through a strict selection process, so the quality of education was not a victim,” he added.
Quality at a price
Najma Akhtar, Deputy Chancellor, Jamia Islamia University (JMI), holds the same view.
“The government is worried that we must recruit the best quality teachers, a process that might involve several election and advertising rounds, all of which require time and resources.
Because we do not compromise on the quality of the faculty that join the University – considering they will maintain several generations of students – Getting the right candidate is often a challenge.
If we advertise and try to fill out all posts at once, we may not get the right candidates all the time.
In such cases, we do not have options but to re-advertise, which delay the selection process.
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The ongoing pandemic has hampered the recruitment process, believes Akhtar, because it gets all election panels and candidates to emerge for interviews can cause serious mobility problems, especially for outstation experts / candidates.
“Even online choices are ruled out, because there is no clear direction from UGC to initiate,” he added.
Not a scarcity of achievement
“The faculty of the post that Ligi empty also has many relationships with the inertia of bureaucracy at the university level and hesitating in implementing the norms of reservations on the grounds that he will disburse the service when hiring the right candidate,” said a faculty from the South University Center based with Anonymity requirements.
He felt that even if the job was there, they were not advertised at the right time.
“The position lying empty might have nothing to do with the scarcity of a qualified faculty, many of which will return to the country from the west for a better opportunity,” he said.
Some faculty members from big cities were also reluctant to move the base.
While many new central universities are in rural areas, many faculty members are reluctant to switch jobs, content to stay in their comfort zone, he added.