{"id":238,"date":"2014-03-22T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T17:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmir-today.net\/net-set-phd-dropped-pgs-appointed\/"},"modified":"2014-03-22T17:10:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T17:10:00","slug":"net-set-phd-dropped-pgs-appointed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=238","title":{"rendered":"NET, SET, PhD dropped- PGs appointed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div><b style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">We did everything on merits: Nodal Officer Higher Education<\/b><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><b>Srinagar:<\/b> Throwing rules to winds, state\u2019s higher education department has appointed Post graduates as contractual lecturers- dismissing the deserving SET\/NET and PhD qualifiers.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">The reports received by KNS stated that the notification issued by state\u2019s higher education department invited applications for the engagement of lecturers, teaching assistants on academic arrangement bases in Kashmir division colleges for the year 2014-15.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">The rejected candidates told KNS that they will approach the court of law as the UGC guidelines 2009, the candidates having NET, SET and PhD shall be eligible for the posts of lecturers. The candidates stated the higher education department has sidelined the guidelines set by the UGC and that the appointment of contractual lecturers was not done on merits.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">However, the nodal officer for the appointment of contractual lecturers Prof Bashir Ahmad Chat told KNS over phone that the appointment has been done on merits and that the same doesn\u2019t come under the rules set by the UGC.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(KNS)<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We did everything on merits: Nodal Officer Higher Education Srinagar: Throwing rules to winds, state\u2019s higher education department has appointed Post graduates as contractual lecturers- dismissing the deserving SET\/NET and PhD qualifiers. The reports received by KNS stated that the notification issued by state\u2019s higher education department invited applications for the engagement of lecturers, teaching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}