Summary:
Lucknow, Oct 28 (PTI) The Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday lifted the bar on the promotion of associate professors of the state-run and aided colleges, a move likely to benefit around 4,000 employees at about 500 such institutions.
Till now, associate professors of the colleges were not getting promoted to the post of professor, prompting them to go to other states.
"It was a long pending demand of the teaching community, which the department under the direction of CM Yogi Adityanath fulfilled today," said Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma, who holds the secondary and higher education portfolio.
Around 4,000 associate professors of about 500 government degree and government-aided colleges will be benefited under the career advancement scheme, he said.
Due to the lack of facility, a large number of qualified teachers were leaving the state to get promoted as professors in other states and the move will pave the way for their "ghar vaapsi", Sharma added.
"Because of the bar on promotion to the post of professor, teachers used to compare this with the Article 370 of Jammu and Kashmir," the minister said, claiming many teachers compared the move with the scrapping of the provision in J-K.