As per reports, the higher educational institutions will be penalised with a withdrawal of affiliation and deemed status, and barred from receiving any assistance from the UGC if they fail to follow the directive.

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Across all the central universities in the country, 54 per cent posts of professors are lying vacant, data provided by the Ministry of Human Resource Development to Lok Sabha showed.

There are 2,426 sanctioned posts of professors across the central universities, out of which 1,301 are lying vacant, HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar informed the Lok Sabha while responding to a question by Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad. The ministry does not have any data for state universities.

Of the 47 central universities in the country, leading ones such as Delhi University (DU) and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) have large vacancies. DU has 157 posts vacant against the sanctioned strength of 264 professors while JNU has 99 posts vacant against 199 sanctioned posts. Pondicherry University, Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, Srinagar, Central University of Himachal Pradesh, Central University of Jammu, and Central University of Jharkhand have significant vacant posts.

The Central University of Haryana, in fact, has all of its sanctioned 30 professor posts vacant.

Javadekar informed Lok Sabha that the University Grants Commission (UGC) has on February 27, 2018 asked the vice-chancellors of all central universities to prepare a time bound action plan indicating timeline for advertisement of posts, scrutiny of applications, selection and appointment of candidates for teaching positions.

Further, the UGC has notified graded autonomy regulations, 2018 according to which universities can hire foreign faculty up to 20 per cent over and above sanctioned strength, the minister said.

UGC regulations also permit universities to recruit Ad-hoc and guest faculty on contract basis against vacant positions to the extent of 10 per cent of their total faculty positions.

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http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-54-prof-posts-vacant-in-central-varsities-hrd-data-shows-2640908

The new Panjab University Vice-Chancellor, Prof Raj Kumar, took charge on Monday, but avoided commenting on a protest by the National Students Union of India, which has labelled him a representative of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS).

Asked about his priorities, he replied, “This university belongs to all of us. We have to carry its traditions and values forward. We all have to get together and contribute as per our capabilities.”

“I wouldn’t keep a communication gap (with journalists). Whatever initiatives are taken for development, these will be communicated to you,” he said.

Asked about the financial crunch being faced by the PU and implementation of the 7th Pay Commission, for which about Rs 100 crore is needed, he said he would look into it.

On the NSUI protest, he smiled and said the people concerned would deal with it.

On vacancies in the PU, he said he would act as per the government policy on recruitments.

 Asked about his vision for the PU which he presented before the selection panel during his interview for the VC’s post, he said the word vision was simple but had complex implications. “Unless you know the system and its entire working, the vision cannot be translated into reality,” he said.   

Asked whether the policies would be “RSS-influenced” in the PU “like in JNU”, he said he had to stay here for three years and would work in collaboration with people. At this point, Chandigarh BJP president Sanjay Tandon intervened and asked reporters to keep questions for a later period. The question-answer session ended after that.