Goemkarponn Desk
TALEIGAO: Days after the Chief Minister Pramod Sawant questioned the Goa University reasons behind its consistent drop in NIRF ranking, the Varsity said that they are in no position to recruit qualified professors and associate professors due to government’s domicile mandate.
The GU said that posts of professors and associate professors are vacant in the University for close to four-five years and due to 15 years domicile mandate, they are in no position to fill it.
The Varsity’s Executive Council met on Friday to deliberated over consistent drop in the ranking at National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF).
Goa University vice chancellor Harilal Menon said that there are lot of vacancies of professors and associate professors pending for many years.
“If we manage to fill those vacancies now, Goa University would be among the top Universities in the country in another five years,” he said.
The GU Council is of the view that the government need to relax the domicile criteria.
Executive Council chairman Sudin Naik said that at present GU does not have professors and associate professors as all have retired over last five years.
“Those who are there are assistant professors and 80 per cent of them don’t even have PHD and hence they are not in position to guide the students,” he said.
“Why is this… because Goa state has made 15 years domicile mandatory for appointment of professors and associate professors. In Goa, we are not getting anyone to handle these posts,” he added.
Further, Naik said that increasing number of private universities across India has also posed challenge before us, but the kind of steps we have taken, soon we will be among top 50.
Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Wednesday raised concern over the slipping of Goa University (GU)’s ranking among the universities across the country, despite being provided with the requisite infrastructure and human resource.
“Despite providing the required infrastructure and human resources, why is Goa University’s ranking falling is a major question for me. Now that we are taking a step ahead in research, I feel Goa University’s ranking should not come down,” he said.
Sawant also expressed concern over the graduating students being unaware of competitive exams.
“Students graduating in the state get their degrees from Goa University. Most of the time, 50% of students do not know about the exams conducted by the Goa Public Service Commission (GPSC) or any other competitive exams,” he said
Sawant also said that if you ask those 50% of students, who know about the competitive exams, about why they are not answering these exams, they say that they are not confident about passing,”
