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| AP aspirants rue JKPSC's outdated, flawed screening criteria | | | Akshay Azad
Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 27: Taking strong exception to the short listing criteria being adopted by Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission (JKPSC) for Assistant Professors' posts, aspirants have claimed that nearly three decades old faulty criteria has been throwing out many brilliant aspirants.
Aspirants informed Early Times that the JKPSC has adopted a very old a flawed criteria of shortlisting the candidates for interviews to various posts of Assistant Professors. "The JKPSC is giving 90 percent weightages to marks in Master Degree while 6 marks to Ph.D and four percent marks to M.Phil but no weightage is being given to the marks attained by candidates at school level, secondary level, Undergraduate level, NET, JRF, publications, paper presentations, experience beside others for shortlisting of the candidates", an aspirant Sajjad Ahmed said.
He further said that many private universities have been giving huge marks to the students of Post Graduate courses while Jammu University, Kashmir University as well as many other reputed varsities have been given very low marks as compared to private universities and the universities notorious for selling degrees.
The aspirants further said as per University Grants Commission (Regulations on Minimum Qualifications for appointment of Teachers and other Academic staff in Universities and Colleges and Measures for the maintenance of standards in Higher Education) Regulations 2010, published in Annual Gazettee dated 30th June, 2010, the clause 6.0.1 reads as, "The overall selection procedure shall incorporate transparent, objective and credible methodology of analysis of the merits and credentials of the aspirants based on weightages given to the performance of the candidates in relevant dimensions and his/her performance on a scoring system Performa based on Academic Performance Indicators (API)". Moreover, the clause 6.0.2 further reads as, "The Universities shall adopt these regulations for selection committees and selection procedure through their respective statutory bodies incorporating the Academic Performance Indicator (API) based Performance Based Appraisal System (PBAS) at the institutional level for University departments and their constituent colleges/affiliated colleges (Government/Government-aided/Autonomous/Private Colleges) to be followed transparently in all the selection processes".
An indicative PBAS template performa for direct recruitment and for Career Advancement Schemes (CAS) based on API based PBAS shall also be sent separately by the UGC to the universities. The Universities may adopt the template proforma or may devise their own self-assessment cum performance appraisal forms for teachers in strict adherence to the API criteria based PBAS prescribed in these regulations, it further reads as.
Showing thumb to the UGC guidelines, in which it is explicitly clear to adopt API criteria based PBAS prescribed but JKPSC in Jammu and Kashmir is still going with three decades old criteria, which is injustice with many candidates, another aspirant claimed.
"As per their own whims and fancies, the PSC authorities are considering PG marks as merely the academic performance, which is very unjust as many aspirants are not finding place even for interviews due to poor marks in PG, during shotlisting", a professor, pleading anonymity said.
An aspirant said that they had also called on Secretary of JKPSC, Shakeel-ul-Rehman for making amendments, who had accepted that the criteria being adopted by Commission was very old. "Secretary claimed that it is a very hectic exercise and also need green signal from state cabinet", an aspirant said, while criticizing the Commission.
They appealed Governor NN Vohra to intervene and direct the JKPSC for making amendments, in the wider interest of qualified candidates of reputed universities by giving weightage to marks at school level, secondary level, Undergraduate level, Post Graduate level, NET, JRF, publications, paper presentations, experience beside others. Secretary of JKPSC, Shakeel-ur-Rehman was not available for comments. |
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