Career of around 70 teachers of Pt. Jawahar lal Nehru Memorial Medical College could be affected as the college administration on Friday decided to conduct a walk-in interview for 39 posts in the college.
The move has evoked strong reactions from the teachers’ association of the medical college. Around 70 teachers of the medical college, who have the prerequisite experience and are eligible for the posts, will not be made a part of this recruitment process. The walk-in interview would be conducted on February 25 on the college premises for 39 promotional posts of Professors and Associate Professors.
“We strongly condemn this move because it is against the rules. The college cannot recruit teachers from outside the institutions when it already has eligible candidates for the vacant posts,” said Dr Atin Kundu, Secretary of teachers’ association of the college.
According to the orders from Dean’s office, the interviews would be conducted for 12 posts of Professor and 39 posts of Associate Professor. Out of more than 150 teachers in the college, around 70 meet all the criteria for the promotional posts in the college. According to the rules, the college administration cannot recruit outsiders on promotional posts if eligible candidates are already waiting to be promoted within the institution,” said Dr AR Verma, member of the teachers’ association. A meeting of teachers’ association was conducted in the Telemedicine Hall on the college premises from 12 pm to 2 pm on Friday which was attended by teachers in large numbers.
The association members have decided to meet state Health Minister Amar Agrawal on Monday to put forward their grievances and urge him to direct the college administration to revoke their move. It may be noted that a similar order was issued by the college administration in October 2013 following which the teachers had raised objections. The members of the association had written to Principal Secretary of Health Department MK Raut urging him to intervene. The Dean of the college had then withdrew his order. A similar order has been issued by the administration on Friday evoking strong reactions from the teachers.