Mysuru
With teaching posts at the University of Mysore continuing to remain vacant, affecting academic activities, the university’s Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation Board has resolved to take up the issue with the State Government as more posts are expected to fall vacant with the superannuation of professors in the coming months.
As many as 382 teaching posts are vacant for many years and the student-teacher ratio affected the chances of the century-old university getting higher NAAC grades.
About 52 per cent of posts are vacant and the government was permitted to fill up the posts in 2020 but it had to withdraw the consent over the COVID-19 situation.
Out of 664 sanctioned teaching posts, the university is managing the academic activities with about 280 posts. “At least 35 professors attained superannuation after I assumed charge. Before I leave office, a few more would be retiring, resulting in more posts lying vacant,” said Vice-Chancellor G Hemantha Kumar.
The issue came up for discussion at the PMEB meeting here in which a resolution was passed to appeal to the government for its nod to start the process of filling up the vacant posts at the earliest.
With 282 professors, associate professors and assistant professors, the academic activities are being run along with the support of 700-plus guest faculty. The vacant posts may also affect research activities in the absence of permanent faculty for guiding research students. “This will also hit the sanction of grants,” he added.
The student-teacher ratio should be 1:15 but the current ratio stands at 1:19.56.
