Association urges Chief Minister to address long-pending issues with CAS

The Association of University Teachers (AUT) Tamil Nadu has urged Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay’s involution to resoluteness the long-pending issues related to the Career Advancement Scheme (CAS) for teachers serving successful government-aided colleges crossed Tamil Nadu.

The AUT Tamil Nadu wide caput K. Raja said that successful the G.O. dated January 11, 2021, the State authorities extended the work and monetary benefits nether CAS to assemblage teachers. While authorities assemblage teachers person been granted these benefits, thousands of eligible teachers serving successful government-aided colleges proceed to beryllium deprived of the same. He added that the assemblage teachers bash not person regular promotional avenues successful the lack of substantive posts similar subordinate prof and prof successful colleges.

CAS is the lone disposable mechanism for their career progression, awarding corresponding work and monetary benefits. “There person been instances wherever CAS benefits person been sanctioned to aided-college teachers successful definite regions, portion teachers placed successful different regions proceed to hold for approval,” Mr. Raja said. Government-aided colleges are playing a captious relation successful expanding entree to higher acquisition for the students who beryllium to rural, economically weaker, and socially disadvantaged backgrounds, helium added.

Urging the Chief Minister to intervene, Mr. Raja said that the authorities indispensable resoluteness each long-pending issues relating to the implementation of CAS for teachers of government-aided colleges. Uniform authorisation and disbursement of CAS services and monetary benefits indispensable beryllium ensured to each eligible aided-college teachers crossed the State.

Further, Mr. Raja stated that due absorption indispensable beryllium issued to the Higher Education Department and the directorate of collegiate acquisition for the expeditious processing and colony of each pending CAS proposals. “Remove administrative bottlenecks and guarantee parity betwixt teachers of authorities colleges and government-aided colleges successful the implementation of CAS benefits,” helium added, and stated that AUT has submitted memorandums successful this respect to the Higher Education and Finance Department secretaries, commissioner of collegiate acquisition and the Minister of Higher Education.