970 lecturer posts are vacant in government colleges and 1,158 lecturer posts vacant in aided colleges in Odisha

Note:  Quality of Higher Education cannot be improved without teachers. If this is the situation of the state, why this thing is not given importance. I hope Higher Education Task Force will seriously look into it.  

1,158 lecturer posts vacant in aided colleges
Expressbuzz, Dec 4, 2009
BHUBANESWAR: Higher Education Minister Debi Prasad Mishra today said that 970 lecturer posts are vacant in government colleges of the State out of the sanctioned strength of 2,864.


To a question from Bibhuti Bhusan Balabantaray (BJD), the Minister said that 1,158 lecturer posts out of 8,054 are vacant in aided colleges of the State. The minister admitted that the State Government was not able to fill the vacancies because of shortage of lecturers.

He said that the State Government had effected very limited number of transfers taking the financial condition of the State into consideration. He said that 207 lecturers of government colleges and 106 from the aided colleges had applied for transfer citing health and other pressing reasons.

Stating that the State Government attached priority to filling up vacancies while transferring lecturers, the Minister said that this requirement would be taken into account during recruitment of junior lecturers.

He said that the Higher Education Department had no guidelines on tenure of posting of a lecturer in one college. It is guided by the 1991 and 2001 guidelines of the General Administration Department, he said, adding that as per this a lecturer cannot continue for more than six years in a district and more than three years in a college.

There is a provision to sympathetically consider transfer request from those who have served for more than three years in KBK districts and those who have two years of their service period left.

He admitted that there are many lecturers serving for more than five years in a college.