Hyderabad|India|Sept'2008:The Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy at a meeting with the ministers and officials decided to recruit in total 5,350 lecturers and other teaching faculty for the Junior, degree and University colleges soon. The Chief Minister directed the departments of Intermediate Education, Collegiate and higher education to go ahead. Of this, notification has already been issued for 500 University College teachers, 500 degree college lecturers and 1100 Junior College lecturers.

He said under no circumstances students should suffer for want of lecturers in colleges and hence the decision and added that more would be recruited in due course of time. The Chief Minister was informed today that the ultimate aim of the Collegiate Education department is that each student has an appointment letter even before the completion of degree. The department is working towards this aim and thus restructuring the combinations and curricula.

There are at present 183 Government degree colleges and the Chief Minister has magnanimously sanctioned 58 more degree colleges thus there would be 241 degree colleges at the end of the academic year in the State. This increase of 32% in just one year is unprecedented and historic. Besides there are 179 aided degree colleges also in the State and the vision of the department is that each student speaks in English and the student is trained for job while studying. The department will introduce employable and skill oriented Add on Courses on the platform of JKC like Accounting Executive, \Office Executive, Basic Teaching Skills, Medical Lab Technology, Retail Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Hospitality and Hotel Management, Tourism and Travel Management, Medical Transcription, Each Course is of 300 hours duration and Target for 2008-09: 35,000 students.

As far as collegiate education is concerned, the Chief Minister agreed that 1,000 new lecturers will be recruited directly by APPSC in addition to the 500 posts for which notification has already been issued. He asked the district collectors to identify land for new colleges. He directed the finance to additional funds for new colleges and contract lecturers.

The Chief Minister was informed that Engineering Graduates: Diploma holders ratio has been brought down form 6:1 to 4.5:1. Seats in government polytechnics doubled from 10,505 to 20,810 and overall increase in seats in polytechnics is 85%. The Chief Minister has sanctioned 23 new Government polytechnics. 350 Government Junior Colleges are given multimedia projector and computers and 50 new Government Junior Colleges sanctioned this year. In addition to the 100 posts already notified, 2,000 more posts of Jr. lecturers will be filled up in the Government Junior and vocational colleges through APPSC.


Minister for Higher and Technical Education R Chenga Reddy, Chairman, A.P. State Council for Higher Education, K C Reddy, Principal Secretary, Higher Education, Ashutosh Mishra, Commissioner, Collegiate Education, Somesh Kumar, Commissioner, Technical Education, Premachandra Reddy, Commissioner. Intermediate Education, Lav Agarwal, Secretary, Finance, Sekhar Babu and other officials attended the meeting.