Besides annual confidential report, the State Government will look into the academic works and exam results of assistant professors, professors and principals of colleges through performance based appraisal system and evaluate their performance on that basis.
This provision has been made on the recommendations of University Grants Commission (UGC), said Higher Education Minister Premprakash Pandey.Addressing the review meeting of principals of leading Government colleges of the State here on Wednesday, Pandey gave special emphasis on the need of increasing quality of education in all colleges and completion of syllabus on time.
The Minister said that the Department has sent a demand letter to the State Public Service Commission for appointment of assistant professors on 966 posts. The Commission will soon issue advertisement for it.Pandey said that till the regular appointment on these posts, a decision has been taken to take services of guest teachers in colleges. He directed principals to complete necessary procedures for selection of guest teachers soon.
Pandey told the principals, “As the new academic session has started, we need to create maximum enthusiastic environment in colleges for study and teaching. So that student of the State can put up better performance in different subjects.” All principals should create favourable environment for it in their respective colleges, he added.
The Higher Education Minister has given in-principal sanction for increasing 50 seats of BSc first year and 10 seats of MSc (Previous) (Chemistry) in Government Post Graduate College Dhamtari. Earlier, this college had 160 science seats for first year graduate course. Similarly, PG (Chemistry) (Previous) had 15 seats, which now has increased to 25.Higher Education Secretary Bl Agrawal informed in the meeting that examination results for the academic session 2013-14 in colleges in many districts were not satisfactory.