PTU ‘hires’ afresh to save illegal appointees

However,PTU is circumventing the existing norms now to regularise these employees. Many of these people have already been issued appointment letters under the new recruitment drive initiated by the university. PTU had recently advertised 200 posts for regular clerical staff. Basic eligibility for these posts was changed multiple times to facilitate the adjustment of the earlier illegal recruitment. This is evident from the fact that of the 217 candidates who were shortlisted initially for these jobs,83 belonged to those whose hiring was termed illegal by the VB. This was all the more glaring because PTU had received a massive 8,000 applications for these 200 posts. 

Of these 83,sources said,50 people have already been issued appointment letters. When contacted,PTU Vice-Chancellor Rajneesh Arora and Registrar H S Bains chose not to comment. Director,Recruitment,R P Bhardwaj said the recruitment was being made on the basis of eligibility. When asked if the reason for multiple change in eligibility requirements was to adjust the earlier appointments,he said: “I am not aware of this.”