Ahmedabad: The state’s technical education field is undergoing a lot of changes in which the number of students has halved in the last few years, at the same time half of the sanctioned positions of professors are vacant in the state govt-run 16 engineering colleges. Experts said that the govt has not promoted Class 2 teachers to Class 1 since 2012 which is why the positions are vacant leaving professors under heavy workload.This in turn negatively impacts the quality of education.
Answering a question by Congress MLA from Vadgam Jignesh Mevani during the ongoing state assembly session, the higher and technical education minister recently said that there are 316 positions of professors vacant in the state-run 16 engineering colleges. According to sources, this number of vacancies accounts for half of the sanctioned positions in the state-run engineering colleges. The minister said that only two new recruitments have been made as on Dec 31, 2023.
Gujarat Rajya Sarkari Engineering College Shaikshanik Rajpatrit Adhikar Mandal, an association of professors has repeatedly demanded that the govt should promote Class 2 teachers to Class 1 positions as many positions are vacant overburdening the teachers.
Pankaj Prajapati, general secretary of the Mandal, said that they have repeatedly requested the govt to promote Class 2 teachers to Class 1 positions as professors. “The last major promotions were issued in 2012 after that no major promotions have been made. Leaving state’s govt engineering colleges with a scarcity of senior teachers,” Prajapati told TOI. He said that the professors are made to perform more non-academic duties than the academic work which is negatively impacting the quality of education.
M N Patel, the retired principal of LD College of Engineering who also served as the vice-chancellor of Gujarat University, said that the govt has not given promotions for the last many years. “The reasons for not promoting assistant professors to professors’ positions is because the educational qualification is PhD and most assistant professors have not completed their doctoral programme,” Patel told TOI.
Answering a question by Congress MLA from Vadgam Jignesh Mevani during the ongoing state assembly session, the higher and technical education minister recently said that there are 316 positions of professors vacant in the state-run 16 engineering colleges. According to sources, this number of vacancies accounts for half of the sanctioned positions in the state-run engineering colleges. The minister said that only two new recruitments have been made as on Dec 31, 2023.
Gujarat Rajya Sarkari Engineering College Shaikshanik Rajpatrit Adhikar Mandal, an association of professors has repeatedly demanded that the govt should promote Class 2 teachers to Class 1 positions as many positions are vacant overburdening the teachers.
Pankaj Prajapati, general secretary of the Mandal, said that they have repeatedly requested the govt to promote Class 2 teachers to Class 1 positions as professors. “The last major promotions were issued in 2012 after that no major promotions have been made. Leaving state’s govt engineering colleges with a scarcity of senior teachers,” Prajapati told TOI. He said that the professors are made to perform more non-academic duties than the academic work which is negatively impacting the quality of education.
M N Patel, the retired principal of LD College of Engineering who also served as the vice-chancellor of Gujarat University, said that the govt has not given promotions for the last many years. “The reasons for not promoting assistant professors to professors’ positions is because the educational qualification is PhD and most assistant professors have not completed their doctoral programme,” Patel told TOI.
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