BPSC to be entrusted with job of appointing college teachers: Education Minister

Patna,(BiharTimes): Education minister Prashant Kumar Shahi said on Tuesday that the Bihar government would bring an amendment Bill in the current budget session of the Assembly to entrust Bihar Public Service Commission with the job to recruit 3,000 Assistant Professors, Associate Professors and Professors.

Replying to a short notice question of Awdesh Kumar Rai (CPI), Shahi admitted that more than 3,000 posts were lying vacant for the last five years.

Parliamentary affairs minister Bijendra Prasad Yadav, while intervening in the discussion, said the state government has decided to make an amendment in the Bihar University Act to entrust Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) with the responsibility of recruitment of professors.

Shahi said the state government dissolved University Service Commission in 2006 as it was not functioning properly and vested power on Chancellor to make recruitment through Vice Chancellors.

However, the education minister, without naming the outgoing governor, said since there was no transparency in the recruitment by the Chancellor the process of recruitment of professors got further delayed.

Leader of Opposition Abdul Bari Siddiqui asked the government as to how the educational work was being carried for over five years without required strength of teachers and does this not indicated that education system has crumbled in the state.

Upon this Bijendra Yadav chose to pass the responsibility on to the previous RJD government. Bit the opposition was quick to retort stating that the last appointment was made in 2003 and most of the teachers retired after the coming to power of the present government.