DEEMED UNIVERSITY PGT KO APPOINTMENT KYU NAHI?

Tribune News Service
Jhajjar, January 16
Hundreds of newly selected postgraduate teachers (PGTs) are facing an uncertain future as they have not received their appointment letters yet due to an objection raised by the Education Department over the validity of their degrees.
The authorities say the affiliation of four universities from where they have secured their master's degrees are being examined. The PGTs selected say several other degree holders of these universities have joined government service and even got promotions.
Several such candidates called on Education Minister Geeta Bhukkal here yesterday and demanded the issuance of their appointment letters at the earliest so that they could join service.
“The Education Department has not issued appointment letters to those who have secured master's degrees from Rajasthan Vidyapeeth University, Udaipur; IASE University, Sardarshahr, Rajasthan; Vinayaka Mission University, Salem, Tamil Nadu; and Bangalore University, Karnataka,” Dharmender Kumar, selected as a PGT, told mediapersons.
He added that the government had appointed several degree holders from these universities on posts of BRP under the Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan in 2013 while many others had got Central government jobs
on the basis of these degrees, but the state government was raising an objection over their degrees now.
“How can the department raise an objection over our degrees at the time of issuing appointment letters if we have cleared the Haryana Teachers Eligibility Test on the basis of these degrees. The authorities should have raised this objection during scrutiny,” said Piyush, selected as a PGT.
Rajesh Kumar, Vikas, Sanjay, Rajratan, Neeraj and Narender, other selected candidates, said hundreds of such selected PGTs across the state approached senior officials at the Directorate of Higher Education in Panchkula on December 19, but no action had been taken so far.
They added that the four universities were affiliated to the UGC for master's courses. The facts could be verified by visiting the UGC website and the universities had not been blacklisted, they added.
Bhukkal said the degrees were being examined to ascertain their authenticity.