Temporary assistant professors celebrate PMs bday demand regularisation as return gift
New Delhi Sep 17 PTI Nearly 200 assistant professors who were recruited on a temporary basis under a special Education Ministry project celebrated Prime Minister Narendra Modis birthday on Friday and demanded the regularisation of their services as a return giftThe faculty members hired under the third phase Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme initiated with the World Bank have been protesting at Mandi House demanding they be made permanentSanjeev Vishwakarma who teaches in Assam said One of the protesting faculty members had brought his children along and they cut the birthday cake They demanded that their fathers job be regularised as a return gift from the prime minister All the protesting faculty members are IIT and NIT graduatesUnder the TEQIP-III project 1500 assistant professors were recruited on a temporary basis for 71 engineering institutions in rural areas with focus on 12 statesThe project is aimed at improving the quality of technical education especially in low income states by providing highly qualified faculty members to existing engineering collegesAfter the project period the state governments were supposed to recruit them Vishwakarma said adding they protested at Jantar Mantar and were given assurance that their case would be taken up with the respective state governments and were also granted extension for another six monthsWe are staring at unemployment and nothing has been done for our absorption We want a permanent policy for our absorption and the colleges where we were teaching recruit us permanently he said PTI SLB TIR TIR
New Delhi Sep 17 PTI Nearly 200 assistant professors who were recruited on a temporary basis under a special Education Ministry project celebrated Prime Minister Narendra Modis birthday on Friday and demanded the regularisation of their services as a return giftThe faculty members hired under the third phase Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme initiated with the World Bank have been protesting at Mandi House demanding they be made permanentSanjeev Vishwakarma who teaches in Assam said One of the protesting faculty members had brought his children along and they cut the birthday cake They demanded that their fathers job be regularised as a return gift from the prime minister All the protesting faculty members are IIT and NIT graduatesUnder the TEQIP-III project 1500 assistant professors were recruited on a temporary basis for 71 engineering institutions in rural areas with focus on 12 statesThe project is aimed at improving the quality of technical education especially in low income states by providing highly qualified faculty members to existing engineering collegesAfter the project period the state governments were supposed to recruit them Vishwakarma said adding they protested at Jantar Mantar and were given assurance that their case would be taken up with the respective state governments and were also granted extension for another six monthsWe are staring at unemployment and nothing has been done for our absorption We want a permanent policy for our absorption and the colleges where we were teaching recruit us permanently he said PTI SLB TIR TIR
