New Delhi: All Colleges, Universities and Deemed Universities have been given a six-month deadline to fill up their faculty vacancies, via a process that will be monitored at every step by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and the University Grants Commission (UGC). Institutions which fail to meet the deadline were warned that their UGC grants may be withheld.
Pushing recruitment into mission mode, UGC issued revised guidelines, noting that “shortage of quality teaching faculty in HEIs (Higher Educational Institutions) is one amongst the many issues confronting the higher education system in the country”.
