SUBHASH MISHRA
Dhanbad, March 15: Over 3500 teachers from Jharkhand’s seven universities and colleges, including 587 lecturers from the 2008 batch, are set to be promoted soon as the deck is all set to be cleared for the pending promotions.
Official sources in the higher education department said that the government has moved the file for implementation of the UGC 2010 Regulation that has stalled the promotion of teachers appointed in 2008.
The sources informed that it could have been implemented last month but the vice-chancellor of Sidhu Kanhu Murmu University, Dumka raised the technical point at the vice-chancellor’s meeting with the Chancellor (governor). The file was held up.
However, Prof Rajkumar, the general secretary of Federation of Universities Teachers Association Jharkhand (FUTAJ), who had reportedly met the chief minister last week, said that the CM has already approved the file and the finance department has almost cleared it.
“So, not only the 2008 batch lecturers but the deck for promotion of entire teachers of state also would be cleared,” he said.
The teachers of the 2008 batch in colleges of all seven universities are without promotion for the last 16 years. The teachers who had been on the post of associate professor are still working as simple lecturers in lack of a promotion.
A teacher of the 2008 batch said that they incur a loss of Rs 70,000 per month in lack of promotion regulation.
“It is ironic that the state government has adopted the 2018 UGC Regulation but has not issued a notification for implementation of 2010 UGC Regulation,” said Prof Jiten Aryan, one of the victim lecturers of Binod Bihari Mahto University (BBMKU) Dhanbad.
As per UGC 2010 Regulation a teacher would be promoted to Level-1 in four years and Level-2 in three years.
However, FUTAJ general secretary Prof Rajkumar said that all major demands of teachers including implementation of Earned Leave (ER) would be resolved soon.
“Delay in implementation of promotion of teachers would also degrade the colleges of the state. So, promotion of teachers is also in the interest of the institutions,” he said.
