osmania university faces faculty shortage

Hyderabad : Osmania University, which has been the nerve center of agitation for separate Statehood, is facing severe faculty shortage in the entire department as the new government has not yet made any decision regarding the recruitment of fresh staff. Students are complaining about this problem for a long time and several representations were also given by them in the past. Sadly, the current strength at the university is only half of the prescribed number.

Research scholars observed that if the current situation continues for few more months, the university may even lose grants from the University Grants Commission in the next academic year.

The university needs almost 1,320 professors which include assistant professors, associate professors and professors to meet the UGC guidelines. As of now the varsity is functioning with merely 590 professors in all the departments across the campus.

“Each department needs six faculty members, but most of the departments have been functioning with either three or only one professor,” said a senior faculty member. The required number of professors in 23 departments functioning from the Arts College is 138, with only 70 functioning, equaling it to half the original strength. The crisis has been prevailing at the university for a long time and worsening every year due to the retirement of a large number of professors.