Professors promoted as principals in government arts and science colleges

The Higher Education section has issued orders promoting 33 professors arsenic principals successful authorities arts and subject colleges successful the State.

Higher Education Minister R. Bindu announced that the promotions were granted to professors who were included successful the prime database prepared by the enactment committee and who proceed to beryllium successful service. The appointments person been made to assorted colleges nether the Department of Collegiate Education.

The appointments are based connected directions issued by the Kerala Administrative Tribunal (KAT) successful transportation with disputes implicit main appointments successful authorities colleges. In compliance with the tribunal’s orders, the authorities had constituted a enactment committee to hole a merit database for filling the posts.

The enactment committee examined the candidates who met the eligibility criteria nether the University Grants Commission (UGC) regulations and prepared a merit database of 51 candidates, on with a waiting database of 38 candidates from a excavation of 89 eligible applicants. The Departmental Promotion Committee subsequently approved the merit database and finalised the prime list.

Based connected the proposal submitted by the Director of Collegiate Education, the authorities has granted promotions to 33 professors from the approved prime database who are presently successful service.

The promotions addresses a long-standing contented of vacant principals’ posts successful authorities arts and subject colleges, which had remained unresolved for respective years owed to aggregate ineligible challenges and procedural disputes during the enactment process. The KAT had besides flagged aspects of the enactment process astatine antithetic stages.

In summation to the 33 confirmed promotions, 8 teachers who had been serving arsenic principals connected a provisional ground volition beryllium allowed to proceed successful their respective institutions, pending the last result of the cases earlier the tribunal.