Governor Draupadi Murmu has instructed Higher and Technical Education Department to gather information about vacancies existing in all the five universities of the State and clear the roster to deal with scarcity of manpower.
“Roster clearance for teaching and non-teaching staffs in all the universities should be done by the Department so that recruitments of Professors and Associate Professors can be done. This should be done soon and the request to JPSC should be made by January 15 next year,” said the Governor while holding a review meeting that was attended by vice-chancellors of all the five universities and top officials of the Department on Tuesday.
Also, all the universities have to upload the list of all the staffs working by December 31 on their websites along with details of birth, their joining date, pay scale and retirement date. She, at the same time, also underlined the importance of building better educational environment in order to make Jharkhand an education hub and students do not need to go out.
The Governor, also the Chancellor of all the State universities, expressed concern over deteriorating teacher-student relationship and termed the recent killing of a teacher at Gumla as a sign of worry. In the meeting, it was also decided that student union meetings would be conducted between August 15 and September 15.
Besides, the Governor also talked about some basic needs of the students such as separate toilet facilities for boys and girls, their cleanliness, making available drinking water and proper electricity along with hostel facilities and their maintenance.
The Governor, on the occasion, also mentioned about internal audit and said that it should take place on regular intervals in order to maintain transparency. All the varsities have been told to submit their financial report by February 28, 2016.
She also talked about regularisation of sessions, conducting exams on time and computerisation of the entire system. Secretary of the Department Ajoy Kumar Singh mentioned about the plan to make all the campuses wi-fi.
He stressed over academic reforms and promotion of vocational courses. Sports and cultural events would be organised in the universities by strengthening sports infrastructure.
VCs and Pro-VCs of Ranchi University, VB University, SKM University, Kolhan University, NP University and BAU were present in the high-level meeting.