Cabinet okays 320 additional posts of assistant professors in 16 new govt colleges in Punjab

The Cabinet has also approved creation of 16 posts of library restorer and 64 posts of lab attendants for these colleges. This will ensure the deployment of required faculty and staff in the newly opened colleges thereby ensuring smooth running of the new colleges which in turn will benefit the students.

The Cabinet also gave consent to enhance the upper age limit for the direct recruitment of 645 Assistant Professors in the government colleges from 37 years to 45 years. This will help in providing regular Assistant Professors in all government colleges in the state along with giving one time opportunity to those already working as non-regular faculty in various colleges to apply for the regular posts of Assistant Professors through direct recruitment by PPSC. This will benefit the students by ensuring that they get access to quality higher education besides ensuring a pool of experienced applicants who have sufficient academic contributions.

Upper age limit relaxed

Taking cognisance of the shortage of teaching faculty in various departments of Government Dental Colleges and Hospitals, Amritsar and Patiala, the Cabinet has approved fixing the upper age limit from 37 to 45 years years for filling up the post of Assistant Professors from Punjab Civil Dental Services through promotion on the lines of provision made by the Punjab Government in Punjab Medical Education Service (Group A) Rule, 2016.

With this, the upper age limit is fixed to 45 years thus ensuring that eligible candidates are available to fill the posts of Assistant Professor to Associate Professor and Professor. This shall help in imparting quality education to dental students as well as providing better health facilities to the public.

MoU with British Council

The Cabinet also gave nod to the department of higher education to sign an MoU with the British Council for starting a training course for students of government colleges in English communication for work from academic session 2023-24 and covering 5000 students initially. The online training course will help the students to improve their English speaking skills to communicate with confidence in professional situations. This would not only improve the confidence level of the students but also provide them the necessary edge when applying for jobs, both in the private and public sector and also communicating as entrepreneurs.

Educational tribunal empowered

The Cabinet also gave go ahead to amend the Punjab Affiliated Colleges (Security of Service of Employees), Act 1974 to give more powers to the Punjab Educational Tribunal to implement its decision, to define the quorum of the Tribunal and to allow for constitution of benches for efficacious disposal of cases by the Tribunal.
Pay of judicial officers

The Cabinet also gave ex-post facto approval to revise the pay of Judicial Officers in compliance of recommendations made by second National Judicial Pay Commission and orders dated 27-07-2022 and 18-01-2023 of Supreme Court in Writ Petition (Civil) 643 of 2015 titled as All India Judges Association vs Union of India and Others.