'600 college teachers to be appointed soon'

Higher Education Secretary Gagan Kumar Dhal has assured the Gangadhar Meher University authorities that all vacant posts of the varsity would be filled soon.Dhal made this assurance while reviewing academic activities of the university in the presence of its OSD Prof SS Rath, Registrar Smita Devi and other senior officers and Sambalpur University Vice-Chancellor Prof CR Tripathy on Friday.

“About 600 teaching staffs will be appointed very soon in colleges across the State. But vacancies will be started filling up from western Odisha colleges,” Dhal told the varsity staffs and some eminent citizen who met him in the Registrar’s office.Dhal said 600 candidates for various teaching posts have already been selected but a court stay order has delayed appointments. However, he said the problem would be ironed out very soon and all colleges would get their vacant posts filled up.

The Secretary also informed that the GM University would get new hostels, an administrative building, e-classrooms, individual office rooms for teaching staffs and a new library soon. “This university will be a model university in the country,” he said.Similar emphasis would also be given for appointment of non-teaching staffs in the university, Dhal assured.

He also directed the Sambalpur University VC to fill up all teaching and non-teaching vacant posts. Dhal also met Principal of different colleges, who narrated various problems in their respective institutions. But almost all of them spitted venom against the Sambalpur Universities to which Dhal asked the VC to be careful.He also asked Prof Tripathy to take his subordinates to task who are harassing college authorities and thereby hindering their academic activities.

Earlier in the day, Dhal had visited different colleges under the Sambalpur University.