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Members of Madurai Kamaraj University Faculty Association (MUFA) staged a sit-in protestation connected the premises of Madurai Kamaraj University present connected Thursday urging the State authorities to instantly process promotions for eligible lecturers successful the university.
C. Muniyandi, wide secretary, MUFA, said, astir 100 lecturers, 85 adjunct professors and 15 subordinate professors were yet to person their promotion orders contempt their eligibility and information successful the Career Advancement Scheme (CAS) process held successful February and March 2024.
“Though we person submitted petitions to the Minister of Higher Education Govi Chezhiaan, Secretary of Higher Education Department, and Convenor, demanding our promotions, nary fruitful actions person been taken towards our demand,” helium added.
“He added that not lone was the university’s hold successful approving promotions for a ample fig of module members a usurpation of their rights, but it would besides yet interaction pupil acquisition arsenic the teachers became dejected.”
Mr. Muniyandi noted that if the promotions had been issued connected time, the subordinate professors would present beryllium professors and eligible to person important backing for their departments. He alleged that owed to this delay, 2 subordinate professors adjacent retired earlier receiving their deserved promotions.
“We are done protesting again and again. To bring an extremity to this prolonging occupation and to pressurise the authorities to contented the promotion orders we person planned to proceed our onslaught arsenic an indefinite protest,” helium added.
About 15 women lecturers and 45 antheral lecturers were to proceed their protestation connected the assemblage premises, helium informed.
