Tuesday, January 12, 2010

[ZESTCaste] NU to follow IITs on faculty recruitment

 

http://www.indiaedunews.net/Delhi/JNU_to_follow_IITs_on_faculty_recruitment_10237/

NU to follow IITs on faculty recruitment

January 12, 2010

JNU to follow IITs on faculty recruitment
New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is all set to review its
reservation policy for recruitment of teachers on the lines of the
Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).

After being the frontier of reservations for quite a long time, it now
mulls to change its track and plans to reserve seats for SCs/STs/OBCs
only at the entry level, which is, at the level of assistant
professor.

Before this initiative, the reservation was valid for all the three
levels - assistant professor, associate professor and professor.

JNU's Executive Council (EC) is expected to come up with a concrete
decision upon the reservation policy as its main agenda in its meeting
today.

JNU Vice Chancellor B.B. Bhattacharya, refused to comment before the
EC's meeting but it is believed that the Human Resource Development
(HRD) Ministry has said that the reservation policy cannot be diluted.

It has even been pointed out that the EC is not the competent
authority to decide about the reservation policy.

According to the university sources, the process to analyse the
reservation policy had already started long back during its Academic
Council meeting on November 25 last year where some of the faculty
members requested the VC to do away with it, as there is no specific
law to define it.

However, JNU teachers are protesting and have already given a
memorandum to the VC, requesting him not to proceed with the review.

Teachers claim that reservation originated from the Constitution and
was implemented on the executive orders of the government of India.

The memorandum mentioned that the reservation policy is followed by
all the central universities and JNU cannot flout it.

It was pointed out to the VC the decision to implement SC/ST/OBC
reservation across the three teaching cadres was approved by the JNU
EC in April, 2007.

JNU teachers have also told the VC that after the 2007 decision,
teaching jobs advertised in 2008 and 2009 followed the reservation
policy.

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