PATIALA, Jan 8: The Punjabi University has decided to extend the services of 30 of the 52 ad hoc lecturers, who had been relieved, till the end A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the Rationalisation Committee appointed by the university syndicate to go into the contentious issues of rationalisation of workload in the university departments and re-employment of the retired university teachers.A university spokesman said that the committee decided to grant extension to the ad hoc teachers in the Law, Commerce, Fine Arts, Chemistry, Computer Science and Engineering Departments. Besides these departments, the ad hoc teachers working in the self- financing projects in Correspondence Courses Department like B.Ed and M.Ed, those associated with the development of Punjabi language and at the regional centres at Damdama Sahib and Bathinda had been given the extension.The committee felt that the posts for which the extension had been given be advertised and the process for filling up of posts be initiated by the end of the current academic session. According to the committee, if the ad hoc teachers in self-financing departments had not been given the extension, it would have adversely effected these courses. The university spokesman said that the matter of grant of extension to the ad hoc lecturers was the only matter taken up at the meeting.All the five members of the committee - Dr Joginder Singh Puar, Education Secretary G.P.S. Sahi, DPI Colleges Kashmira Singh, Director of the Languages Department Dr M.L. Hasija and Dean of Academic affairs Dr B.S. Bhatia - attended the meeting.Meanwhile, Punjab University Teachers' Association general secretary Dr N.S. Atri has hailed the move and demanded that the other teachers should also be given extension.
