Summary:
There are 1,750 sanctioned seats of assistant professors, and 1,333 are still vacant. The assistant professor recruitment is done either directly by the DME or via a lateral recruitment by the Directorate of Public Health and TVVP. Now, the main workforce at hospitals performing night duties are also assistant professors, as the recruitments haven’t happened. If the CAS is not implemented and the age-hike is finalised, these doctors who have been assistant professors will not get a chance at being associate professors. Therefore, the associate professors from that period have just become professors, now..