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GUWAHATI: Conflict between Gauhati University (GU) and Assam governor Jagdish Mukhi on the issue of terminating jobs of contractual teachers has intensified. GU vice-chancellor PJ Handique on Monday wrote to chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, seeking his advice to break the impasse in the state university after the students union and teachers body refused to agree to the governor s directive. The chief minister has got the urgent letter from GU. We are expecting a solution with his intervention as all roads were closed after the governor said no to continuation of the services of the contractual teachers, a senior official of the university said.
University sources said contractual teachers constitute around 20% of the total faculty strength of the state university.
GUWAHATI: Students of Gauhati University (GU) could be in trouble after the university authority terminated the jobs of all contractual teachers, numbering around 45 to 50, amid the pandemic.
Pursuant upon the directive from GU chancellor and Assam governor Jagdish Mukhi, followed by a meeting of the university vice-chancellor with him, the university has notified that all contractual appointment of teaching faculty has been stopped with effect from June 30. The order is also applicable to those teachers whose contract period was valid beyond June 30.
University sources said contractual teachers constitute around 20% of the total faculty strength of the state university. Communication and journalism, environmental science, integrated commerce, five-year LLB are among the departments which are going to be worst effected by the policy. Gauhati University Teache