Working towards the requisition of 68 posts for Assistant Professor and Librarians, assures Higher Education Department
Morung Express News
Dimapur | September 10
A forum of “Scholars/researchers/academicians from Nagaland” has posted an open letter to the Nagaland Minister of Higher & Technical Education, Temjen Imna Along to look into apparent discrepancies in the number of teaching positions reportedly created for higher education by the government and the failure to advertise the same in the recent notification for the Common Educational Services Examination (CESE) 2018 on August 21.
The open letter from the ‘Nagaland NET Qualified Forum’ reminded the Minister that the state cabinet had “approved the creation of 110 Assistant Professors posts to be recruited within the year 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 vide the Office Memorandum No. CAB 2/ 2013, Sl. No 5, dated 4th of July 2018.”
“The office memorandum clearly mentions that 68 of the 110 posts were to be created within the year 2018-2019 and the remaining 42 within 2019-2020,” it added.
“The notification and the office memorandum of the state cabinet- were widely circulated in social media,” it pointed out. In view of this, all NET/PhD qualified, assistant professor aspirants have been waiting in great anticipation for the announcement of the said posts by the NPSC, the forum said.
However, it lamented that the government failed to advertise for the “newly created post of 68 Assistant professors and Librarian” in the recent Nagaland Public Service Commission advertisement.
The forum asked the minister to “restore our faith” in the recruitment system and requisition the 68 posts (without any reservation of posts for regularisation for those appointed through backdoor) to the NPSC at the earliest and ensure that the exams for the mentioned posts be conducted along with the recently advertised CESE, 2018. A copy of the letter was also submitted reportedly to the State Directorate of Higher Education.
Procedural delay, says government
In response to the open letter, an official from the Department of Higher Education today said that the non-advertisement of the ‘created posts’ was due to procedural delay.
"Any government paper work takes time. It has its own procedure," Kuholi Chishi, Director of Higher Education told The Morung Express in a telephonic conversation and assured aspirants “not to worry.”
The department is working towards the requisition of the 68 posts for Assistant Professor and Librarians, she maintained, adding, "We are aware that this exam should catch up with the rest of the exams.”
Upon further enquiry regarding the timetable of its publication, Chishi cited the normal ‘procedural’ mechanism of the government.
Read the open letter in details here: http://morungexpress.com/open-letter-to-minister-of-higher-education/
