PSC to appoint University teachers.

I endorse KPCC president Ramesh Chennithala’s demand that the Public Service Commission (PSC) should be authorised to make university appointments. All University appointments at present are done on the basis of political affiliations and that should come to an end. The University Syndicates are conglomeration of politically privileged ones who siphon out huge sum from university fund why way of TA/DA. The PSC appointment should extended to aided colleges too in Kerala where the salaries to teaching staff and non-teaching staff are paid from state exchequer but the appointments are done erratically. The appointment committee constituted in colleges with a government nominee and a subject expert often shows their expertise in eating a lavish dinner after the interview. There is not even a single private college in Kerala where appointments are done without a price. And with the implementation of revised UGC package the donation will augment to half a crore.

Act of turning universities into its feeder organizations of political parties is not a new phenomenon. All political parties are responsible for turning the centres of academic excellence in to shambles.

K A Solaman
Published TNIE April 10, 2010