Punjabi University Class A officials want admn posts

Patiala, January 31

Non-teaching Class A officials of Punjabi University now want allocation of senior administrative posts amongst them. This is while a number of non-teaching administrative posts of the university have been allocated to teaching officials.

Gurinderpal Singh Sidhu (Babbi), president, A-Class officer’s Association (non-teaching) of the university, said they had written to the authorities demanding allocation of various non-teaching posts, but their demand was not fulfilled.

Showing the university’s reply to an RTI application provided on January 27, another non-teaching Class A officer said the university had stated that as many as 15 non-teaching posts on the campus were allocated to teaching officials. These include the post of university registrar, director (Monitoring and planning), Director (Youth welfare), Director (Public relations), DSW, Provost, finance officer and others. The university had as many as 89 non-teaching posts, including senior technical assistants, wardens, security officer and others, he added.

Gurinderpal said,“The university has not filled the post of registrar through proper advertisement process in over 10 years. Earlier, Class A officers were less in number. Now, there are over 300 Class A officers at the university, which has been making stop-gap arrangements by allocating the charge to teaching officials.” There was no response from the university in this regard. — TNS