NU to hire 110 assistant professors on contract for new academic year
The decision has been taken to attract qualified and experienced candidates,
Several postgraduate departments at NU have been functioning without full-time faculty for extended periods, while others are operating with skeletal teaching staff. University-run colleges are also reeling under severe faculty shortages.
Efforts to appoint regular teaching staff at Nagpur University have been stalled for years.
A previously launched recruitment drive was derailed due to technical issues and remains unresolved. Although the university received government sanction to fill 92 regular posts, the process was complicated by the separation of Laxminarayan Institute of Technology (LIT), a university-conducted college, that has since become an independent university.
The sanctioned 92 posts included approximately 23 positions from LIT.
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Then Vice-Chancellor Subhash Chaudhari had written to the government seeking clarity on the division of these vacancies, but no response has been received so far. Meanwhile, NU received over 2,000 applications for the posts. However, the recruitment cannot proceed until separate rosters for NU and LITU are formally established.
As per the current contractual recruitment drive, science and technology departments have the largest vacancies, with 40 positions advertised.
This is followed by 24 posts in social sciences and 11 in languages, both under the Faculty of Humanities. The Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies will recruit nine teachers, Commerce and Management will get six, and three will be appointed in the Centre for Specialised Studies.
Another 17 posts will be filled in the University's College of Education and Law College.
The appointments have become urgent, as the university has made it mandatory for affiliated colleges to meet minimum teaching staff requirements to receive continuation of affiliation.
Senate members have repeatedly flagged the shortage of teachers as a critical concern.
Senate member Manmohan Bajpai pointed out that while the last date for application is June 28, the university has not clarified whether a selection panel has been formed. "The university must also state when the process will be completed. There is no schedule yet for scrutiny, interviews, or final selection," he said.
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