The higher education department has decided to appoint newly selected assistant professors in the college located in mountainous and remote areas.
These new teachers would have to compulsorily serve in these colleges for a period of five years.
After the green signal given by the Uttarakhand High Court (HC) recently to give appointments to the Assistant Professors selected by the Uttarakhand Public Service Commission, the department has given appointment letters to 53 Assistant Professors recently.
In an important decision, the department has decided to appoint these newly recruited faculty members in the colleges located in the remote and mountainous locations.
In terms of the accessibility of the colleges, the department has made categories of easy to access (Sugam) and hard to access (Durgam) colleges.
Out of total 105 government colleges in the state, 78 are categorised Sugam while 27 are located in Durgam categories. The director of college education, N P Maheshwari told The Pioneer that all the newly recruited faculty members would be posted in the Durgam category colleges.
He informed that the department has recently given appointment letters to 53 assistant professors of commerce and all of them would be posted in colleges located in mountainous and remote locations.
The higher education department has a sanctioned strength of 2151 faculty members out of which permanent teachers are posted in 1173 positions.
The department also has 43 contractual and 200 guest faculty members.
However in the colleges located in Durgam areas, large numbers of posts of teachers are vacant and in view of this shortage, the department has decided to appoint newly recruited faculty members in these colleges.