Acharya NG Ranga Agricultural University set for staff shortage

Hyderabad: The Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University is gearing up for a faculty crunch once the university’s employees belonging to Andhra Pradesh leave to join the Acharya NG Ranga Agricultural University, as part of the bifurcation process which is likely to happen in the two to three months.

Most of the university’s teaching faculty is from AP. Till now, 49 teaching members have decided to opt for the ANGRAU and more are expected to follow. The PJTSAU has more than 600 teaching members as of now. However, it faces a shortage of 30 to 40 per cent of its sanctioned strength of faculty members. The retirement age of 62 years in AP as compared to 60 in TS can prove a decisive factor.

However, the university is ready to face a crunch by extending education through virtual classrooms to its students of agricultural colleges in Hyderabad, Jagtial in Karimnagar and Aswaraopeta in Khammam. The infrastructure required for virtual classrooms like projectors and high Internet connectivity are being readied in separate classrooms in all three colleges.

A PJTSAU official said that by the end of this month the final list of teaching and non-teaching faculty to be assigned to AP and TS will be prepared after which recruitment can be conducted for teaching posts which will become vacant.