No NET/SET for 1,269 UoP teachers

“The UGC has reviewed the proposal and allowed 1,269 such teachers to continue service without taking the NET-SET examination. Decision about the remaining teachers will be taken by evaluating each case separately,” said A K Walunj,secretary,Pune University Teachers’ Association (PUTA) on Saturday. He said the UGC had sent a letter to this effect to the UoP on March 20.

In case the teachers were not exempted from the new-framed rule,they would have had to clear NET/SET examination within two years and failure to do so could have cost them their jobs.

The issue came to light after the UGC came up with the norm of clearing NET/SET for college teachers last year. College teachers’ organisations argued that teachers appointed during the period of 1991 to 1999 doesn’t have to comply with his norm.

“The state government had also promised to exempt them from NET/SET during a state-wide strike of college teachers on the same issue in July/August last year,” said a member of PUTA.