Patna, (BiharTimes): The Raj Bhawan has questioned the state human resources development minister Brishen Patel’s statement that over 5,000 vacancies exist in universities of the state. Instead, according to it,there are surplus college teachers in Magadh
University.

The Raj Bhawan has detected 97 surplus teachers in the course of its rationalization exercise. The exercise is to be conducted for all the universities of the state. At present, Magadh University (Bodh Gaya) and Jaya Prakash Narayan University, Chapra, have been taken up for this purpose.

Though the human resources development minister on Wednesday announced that there exist 5,000 vacancies and it was shortly going to fill it soon, the Raj Bhawan seems to have thrown spanner in its plan. Not only that the Chancellor’s office is for the first time working out the requirement of teachers on the basis of the existing strength of students.

It was detected that many colleges under Magadh University had man-made crisis of faculty members as, in the last several years, a large number of teachers have sought transfer from colleges in rural areas to those in the urban centres, for example, Patna, Gaya, Biharsharif, Jehanabad etc. Thus while there are surplus teachers in colleges in Patna there is acute shortage in the rural areas. The core committee constituted to work out the strategy for rationalization of teachers has in its report exposed the way indiscriminate transfer in the past had rendered several colleges virtually non-functional.

Besides, like the Patna University the other eight universities too are going to surrender many posts of teachers after the proposed de-linking of the Plus-two education next year.

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