Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 4: The retired College teaching fraternity has strongly voiced its concern over the new proposed recruitment policy of the State Government and demanded that higher educational setup should be excluded from the purview of the proposed policy to maintain higher academic standards in the colleges.
College teachers have been a major catalyst and willing partners for the transformations of the higher educational setup in the State and as such, deserve a better treatment from the Government, said the Retired College Teachers Association president Prof Vijay Kumar Sharma.
He stressed that the Government should not isolate the State from the norms set at the national level for Higher Educational Institutions and being followed all over the country. “In order to meet the stringent appointment and promotion norms of UGC, the College Teaching cadre has not only to be of a very high academic standard, but also acquire higher educational qualifications & skills, prior to joining the college service and also during the service, resulting in a very late entry into the Govt service, he explained.
The RCTA demands that in order to uphold the sanctity of the higher education profession, all the appointments should continue to be filled by the J&K PSC on a permanent basis and a large number of genuine Ph D holders should be given an opportunity to join the Higher Education Department without any further delay and without agonizing proposal of a long seven year temporary service.
The association also demanded that instead of making PSC redundant, it should immediately be made functional and the process of appointment of college teachers should be speeded up, as the requisite posts have already been referred to the PSC a long time ago.
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