With academic institutions across the state being headed and run by contributory staff due to shortage of qualified faculty and principals, Nagpur University is no different. There was some hope when vice chancellor Vilas Sapkal took over the reins and promised to revamp the dismal situation.
However, his efforts seem to have fallen short, as hundreds of vacancies are not likely to be filled up before January next year, sources said. The shortage of regular faculty is severely hampering work at all NU departments, and may be leading to poor quality education.
This means that a majority of NU departments would continue to run with contributory lectures in the new academic year as well. Ironically, NU's two new postgraduate departments - molecular biology and genetic engineering, and commerce - which start admitting students this year, will also have only contributory lecturers.
The UGC had granted funds for appointing faculty in both departments. UGC has sanctioned posts of a reader and two lecturers and promised to bear their salaries for five years. However, sources claimed that owing to lethargy of NU officials, none of these posts has been filled up so far.
BCUD director Arvind Chaudhary admitted that so far no appointments have been made and the process was underway. Sources stated that even after NU advertised posts for LIT about six months back, there has been no progress in this regard.
Moreover, all the important statutory posts, including that of registrar, exam controller and BCUD director, are being handled by 'officiating' officials. If this is not enough, Sapkal has not made any attempt to appoint his deputy (pro-VC), who usually looks after the examinations and also heads the research recognition committees (RRCs) to check PhD thesis.
As if this is not enough, NU can't constitute panels for conducting interviews for posts of lecturers until its statutory bodies like management and academic councils, and the senate are fully constituted. Important bodies like board of studies (BOS), which frames/revises syllabus, and board of examinations too are yet to be formed.
All this is leading to tremendous problems for students, who have to study old and obsolete syllabus despite rapid developments in all fields. None of the statutory bodies are likely to be in place till November-December, sources said.
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However, his efforts seem to have fallen short, as hundreds of vacancies are not likely to be filled up before January next year, sources said. The shortage of regular faculty is severely hampering work at all NU departments, and may be leading to poor quality education.
This means that a majority of NU departments would continue to run with contributory lectures in the new academic year as well. Ironically, NU's two new postgraduate departments - molecular biology and genetic engineering, and commerce - which start admitting students this year, will also have only contributory lecturers.
The UGC had granted funds for appointing faculty in both departments. UGC has sanctioned posts of a reader and two lecturers and promised to bear their salaries for five years. However, sources claimed that owing to lethargy of NU officials, none of these posts has been filled up so far.
BCUD director Arvind Chaudhary admitted that so far no appointments have been made and the process was underway. Sources stated that even after NU advertised posts for LIT about six months back, there has been no progress in this regard.
Moreover, all the important statutory posts, including that of registrar, exam controller and BCUD director, are being handled by 'officiating' officials. If this is not enough, Sapkal has not made any attempt to appoint his deputy (pro-VC), who usually looks after the examinations and also heads the research recognition committees (RRCs) to check PhD thesis.
As if this is not enough, NU can't constitute panels for conducting interviews for posts of lecturers until its statutory bodies like management and academic councils, and the senate are fully constituted. Important bodies like board of studies (BOS), which frames/revises syllabus, and board of examinations too are yet to be formed.
All this is leading to tremendous problems for students, who have to study old and obsolete syllabus despite rapid developments in all fields. None of the statutory bodies are likely to be in place till November-December, sources said.
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