Nurpur govt college sans teaching, non-teaching staff

Rajiv Mahajan

Nurpur, December 21

A large number of vacant posts of teaching and non-teaching staff in the Arya Government College have disrupted normal studies, causing resentment among students.

The state government seems to be ignorant about the situation and keeps ordering transfers of faculty members for the past two years, without posting any new professor or non-teaching staff in the college.

Posts of professors, one each in English and zoology, have been lying vacant for the past two years. Two posts of professors in chemistry department have been lying vacant for the past over six months and there is no professor in the economics department for the past three years. Similar is the position of the post of librarian.

The post of physical education instructor has not been filled by the state Education Department ever since it was created four years back. In the non-teaching staff, two sanctioned posts of clerk, one of chowkidar and another of peon have been lying vacant for the past some time. Even superintendent grade II of this college is under transfer. It seems that the frequent transfers of teaching and non-teaching staff have plagued the college and the Education Department has failed to post any new professors after transferring the old ones.

In this connection, Arvind Pathania, principal of the college, said he had been submitting the college establishment status report every month to the higher authorities of the Education Department.

Meanwhile, Jagbir Thakur, president of the local unit of the ABVP, and Pitamber Thakur, Nurpur district media coordinator, said an ultimatum for filling the vacant posts, ensuring infrastructure development and solving a number of college campus problems had been served to the college administration over a month ago. “In the ultimatum, the administration has been informed that if the demands are not accepted, members of the ABVP unit will boycott the annual prize distribution function scheduled in February next year and black flags will be shown to the chief guest as a mark of protest against the neglect of the college by the state government,” they said.