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Varsities told to fill 6,000 vacant posts by October: Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan

Pradhan backs JNU on counter-terrorism course

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Tribune News Service

New Delhi, September 3

Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan today directed central universities to work on filling up the 6,000 vacant posts by October, create a framework for alumni endowment and establish campuses as breeding ground for sports and job creation.

Addressing Vice-Chancellors of 46 central universities, he urged them to fulfil responsibilities outlined in the National Education Policy-2020 and fill the vacant posts on a mission mode, setting a deadline of September 10 for advertising the vacancies.

Ensure teaching not compromised

The onus of ensuring that teaching and learning is not compromised lies with the VCs. Universities should focus on bringing back on schedule the academic routine which had been disrupted by the pandemic in last two years. — Dharmendra Pradhan, Education Minister

In his first formal interaction with the heads of the centrally funded universities, he also asked to initiate frameworks for implementation of the Academic Bank of Credit and schemes like the multiple exit and entry degree programmes and virtual universities.

Pradhan also backed the JNU over the new course on counter-terrorism for engineering students.

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