Higher Education Minister Ramvichar Netam on Monday instructed officers of the department to prepare rules to give special allowance and priority in promotion to the principals and other employees of colleges established in naxalites affected areas.
The Minister, while holding a meeting of the principals of leading colleges and registrars of universities of the State, reviewed the departmental works and sought information about the preparations for admission in the 2013 academic session.
He said, under the leadership of Chief Minister Raman Singh, the State has made a new identity in the field of higher education. To make the future of youngsters better, the State Government has made significant efforts to extend higher education up to common man by starting new universities in Bastar and Sarguja, he added.
The Minister said that opportunity has been given to the youngsters of tribal and remote areas to get higher education at very lowest expenses, especially those who were deprived of higher education due to financial resources. He congratulated the principals for this achievement.
Netam said that significant efforts have been made to fill up the vacant posts of about 600 assistant professors in the state and added that letter has been written to the general administration department to made amendments in the rules for the appointment of assistant professors.
The Minister instructed the colleges to fully utilise the grant amount being given by the University Grants Commission and asked the other colleges, which were deprived of the grant, to keep in touch with the University Grants Commission regularly.
Netam instructed the officers concerned to complete the construction works sanctioned during the year 2010-11 and 2011-12 with the time limit. He said that in the current financial year sanction has been accorded to establish 18 new colleges in the State.