University of Madras says 60% of its faculty posts are vacant
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In a reply submitted throughout the Senate assembly of University of Madras chaired by Vice-Chancellor S. Gowri on Saturday, the college acknowledged that 60% of its sanctioned posts had been vacant. The replies had been sought by Madhavaram MLA S. Sudharsanam, who’s a member of the Senate.
According to the information furnished, 57.7% of the 513 instructing posts and 60.8% of the 1,357 non-teaching posts had been vacant. In complete, 1,121 of the 1,870 posts had been vacant, the assertion mentioned.
Among the instructing workers, most vacancies had been within the affiliate and assistant professors cadre. A complete of 177 of the 290 (61%) assistant professor and 101 of the 129 affiliate professor (79.3%) posts had been vacant.
Pending funds
Filling up of vacancies and the college’s monetary place dominated the dialogue on the Senate assembly.
The replies submitted on the assembly to the questions of Mr. Sudharsanam additionally confirmed that ₹165.77 crore of further grants from the State authorities for the years 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 had been pending. Owing to the non-release of funds, the college mentioned it needed to remit ₹16.37 crore from its Endowment Fund to fulfill wage and pension associated bills.
The college officers additionally highlighted that admissions to the Institute of Distance Education, one of the necessary sources of income for the college, had fallen drastically on account of new rules of the University Grants Commission.
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