Norms issued for engaging teachers in colleges

Vikas Sharma
Tribune News Service
Jammu, February 18

The Higher Education Department has issued guidelines for the engagement of candidates on an academic arrangement basis in Government Degree Colleges (GDCs) of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Besides, the principals of the colleges have been told to work out the actual requirement of the need-based teachers strictly as per the available teaching workload of respective courses according to their respective weightage.

Sources said the Registrar Cluster University, Srinagar/Jammu, will make the academic arrangements with regard to the constituent colleges of their respective universities on academic session to session basis. They added that the Director Colleges, J&K, through the respective nodal principals will make academic arrangements for all GDCs of J&K except the autonomous colleges and constituent colleges of Cluster Universities Srinagar/Jammu.

Principals of autonomous colleges — Islamia College in Srinagar and Government College for Women (GCW) Parade will make academic arrangements at their own level. Principal, Government College of Engineering and Technology (GCET) Jammu/Safapora (Kashmir), principal , School of Nursing, Jammu/Srinagar, principal, School of Architecture, Jammu/Srinagar will make the need-based academic arrangement as per the norms of their respective institutions in consultation with the Director Colleges.

The remuneration per lecture of 60 minutes is fixed at Rs 500 for need based teachers/guest faculty with the qualification of national eligibility test (NET)/state level eligibility test (SLET) or PhD prescribed by the University Grants Commission (UGC) and Rs 450 for teachers with only master’s degree as their highest qualification.

Sources added that despite protest by the Academic Arrangement Teacher Association (AATA) in both Jammu Province and Kashmir Province last year over the changing of the government order the Higher Education Department continue with it and term their services as “need based”.

Further, an academic arrangement candidate who remains unauthorisedly absent for more than five days will be terminated without giving any notice. “Provided that wherever the workload for need based teachers/teaching assistant might be inadequate, they shall have to discharge other academic jobs, including remedial classes, classes in allied subject, e-content development, examination evaluation, research, social outreach and other institutional development”, a Higher Education Department order said.

The need based academic arrangement teachers will be paid remuneration/examination fee for attending examination/evaluation duties as per the university norms by respective universities as and when engaged for such duties”, the order further said.

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