NSUI demands permanent appointment in Ranchi University

Ranchi: NSUI state vice president Aman Ahmad opposed the appointment of visiting professors to run the teaching-learning process smoothly in Ranchi University.

He, referring newspaper reports said, it was wrong from part of RU vice chancellor saying the teaching-learning process is being affected due to the shortage of teachers in the university and the problem has multiplied after university was prevented from appointment of need based teachers and thus justifying his idea of appointing retired Ranchi University teachers as visiting professors on payment of Rs 1500 per class.

He rubbished the idea saying “psychiatrists around the world believe that after 40 years, a person’s mental cells decrease, not increase, memory gradually decreases, the power of thinking and understanding decreases and after a certain age limit of 60 to 65 years, a person’s memory is not as much as is needed for teaching work, so in such a situation, it does not seem appropriate to get retired 65-year-old professors to do teaching work.”

He rdemanded permanent appointment. “If there had been permanent appointment, then the shortage of teachers in higher education would have been removed and the level of higher education would have improved a lot and students would have benefited, but it is unfortunate for the state that till now no attention is being paid to this. Since the formation of Jharkhand, less attention has been paid to this, that is why in the 24 years of the formation of the state, assistant professors have been appointed only once in 2008, in that too the game of setting-getting was played, the investigation of which is still going on under CBI.”

He urged the state government that visiting professors should not be appointed in any university of the state, nor should the contractual post be promoted, but on the contrary, permanent appointment of assistant professors should be done through JPSC under JPSC rules as soon as possible and the shortage of professors in universities across the state should be removed.