HC quashes Ravenshaw faculty recruitment advertisement

The Orissa High Court today quashed a recruitment advertisement of Ravenshaw University and directed the varsity authorities to make a fresh advertisement within four weeks and complete the recruitment process in next four weeks.
A division bench, comprising Justices Indrajit Mahanti and D P Choudhury, adjudicating over a batch of writ petitions, observed that the June, 2014 faculty recruitment advertisement was made in violation of UGC norms and quashed it.
The advertisement sought applications from eligible candidates for filling up 114 posts of lecturers, Assistant Professors and Professors.
Ever since the well-known institution was converted into a university in 2006, it has been suffering from acute shortage of teaching faculties.

The state government had in 2006 sanctioned 153 teaching posts to meet the academic requirement of around 6000 students. The University authorities managed to recruit 126 faculties from the sanctioned strength by 2012 and subsequently, the government sanctioned another 114 posts of teachers for the university in 2014 looking at its precarious teacher-student ratio.
Although, the recruitment process had begun after an advertisement was made to this effect in June 2014, the process was challenged in the High Court alleging gross irregularities in the advertisement.