HC Bars Fresh Academic Arrangements In Degree Colleges

Srinagar- Observing that the government has“compromised” both the quality of faculty and the standard of education imparted in the Government Degree Colleges, the High Court of J&K and Ladakh has directed that no fresh academic arrangements shall be made by the authorities against clear vacancies of Assistant Professors, Librarians, and Physical Training Instructors (PTIs) borne on the Jammu and Kashmir Education Gazetted Colleges Service Recruitment Rules 2008.

Disposing of a batch of connected pleas, a Division Bench of Justice Sanjeev Kumar and Justice Sanjay Parihar ordered the government to form a high-level committee within a month as well as also directed it to immediately refer all such vacant posts to the Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission for selection.

“The Committee shall also examine the desirability of creating additional posts of teaching faculty, Librarians, and PTIs in various degree colleges to meet the current and future demand of admissions and shall take requisite steps for creation of such additional posts, to be filled up only under the Jammu and Kashmir Education Gazetted Colleges Service Recruitment Rules 2008 Jammu and Kashmir Rules through a selection process conducted by the Public Service Commission.”

The Court ordered that the High-Level Committee be headed by the Chief Secretary, with the Secretaries to Government, Department of Higher Education, General Administration Department, Finance Department and Law Department as its members.

“The Committee shall, within a period of two months, embark upon an exercise to identify those candidates who were appointed as Assistant Professors/Librarians/PTIs prior to the commencement of (Jammu and Kashmir Civil Services (Special Provisions) Act, 2010), against clear vacant posts who were in position on the said date; and who have rendered continuous service for a period of seven years or more.”

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