Hopes have brightened up for the 21 contractual teachers working in the Nilamber Pitamber University who are demanding regularization of services here, said sources.
The 21 contractual staff even staged a sit in demonstration in the first two weeks of February in support of the demand of their absorption.
Sources said the contractual staff had to resort to agitation to make Nilamber Pitamber University administration understand that initiation of absorption is first to be done by the university itself.
However, registrar of the university S N Singh had his contention that it is the HRD that is to take the first call on the absorption of the contractual staff and not the university.
Sources said it led to a standoff where for the period of their agitation the university officials barring registrar began to see the agitating contractual personnel nuisance element.
Sources said the department of higher technical education and skill development government of Jharkhand is on this issue.
This correspondent spoke to the director higher education A Muthukumar, a 2009 batch IAS officer, who said very categorically that it is the university which is to take all initiatives for the absorption of its contractual staff.
Muthukumar said the issue of the absorption of the contractual staff is to be first processed and prepared for the HRD government of Jharkhand by the university itself before it is sent to the department.
The director queried from this correspondent if the Nilamber Pitamber University has sent any such communication to the department in regard to the absorption of the contractual staff. The university has claimed to have sent a detailed proposal in this regard to which Muthukumar said that the department will examine it.