No principals for several Gujarat University-affiliated colleges

No principals for several Gujarat University-affiliated colleges

Even as the executive council of Gujarat University resolves to look into the administrative staff vacancies, many university affiliated colleges are functioning without a fulltime principal. The situation has remained the same for the last couple of years.
While some blame it on lack of right candidates others accuse the state government of delay in filling up the posts.
As per records available, of the 356 colleges affiliated to GU in various disciplines, more than 100 are functioning either with officiating principals or have vacant posts for the last three years.
Executive council member Narhari Amin, who has been raising this issue, said that the university authorities are very particular about rules when it comes to self- financed colleges but don't show the same enthusiasm for grant-in-aid colleges. “When university members inspect self-financed colleges they insist on the colleges maintaining all records but the same is not done for grant- in-aid colleges,” said Amin.
Another executive council member Manish Doshi said that in absence of fulltime administrative staff there is a difficulty inday to day functioning of such colleges as well.For, those who act as officiating principal it becomes difficult to take certain decisions regarding recruitment and finance, he said.
Some members also said that there was a problem getting the right kind of candidate for the post of principal and lecturer. “Going by the UGC guidelines if recruitments are to be made then we encounter problem with qualification and experience,” said a member of the executive council.Members also said that the problem is likely to aggravate as some of the principals are likely to retire within a year or two.
"Replacing them with the most senior person of a college seems to be the best and only option and so the university authorities do not want to make much effort in recruiting outsiders,'' saidone of the executive council members.
GU vice-chancellor Parimal Trivedi, however, said that process of recruitment was a time consuming one as it involved a lot sanctions and permissions, but has alreadyinitiated the process of recruitment for many colleges.

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