MADURAI: Fifty-seven assistant professors of Bharathidasan Institute of Technology, Trichy have jointly filed a writ petition before the Madras high court Madurai bench challenging the Anna University's (Chennai) direct recruitment drive to fill up the posts of professors and associate professors.
Upon perusing the petition filed by S John Vennison and 56 others, justice S Vaidyanathan said, "In case any appointment is made, it is subject to the result of the writ petition."
The judge also said the university should also intimate the court and the petitioners in case any selection or appointment or promotion is made.
The university on March 20 issued an advertisement on its website calling for applications for appointment to the post of professors and associate professors by direct recruitment. As per it, 178 posts of associate professors have been notified under various departments.
The petitioners claimed that though they were possessing necessary qualifications to be promoted as professors and associate professors, the university did not consider them for promotion.
They said that with a view to simplify the managing affairs of Anna University, the state government established four more technical universities including Anna University, Trichy (AU-T). Later, it was renamed as the Anna University of Technology - Trichy. While so, once again, the Anna University was converted into an unitary type university by merging the four universities on June 19, 2010 and posts of those universities were merged with Anna University (Chennai).
After the merger, the Anna University has neither passed any order as to absorb the employees working in other regional centres nor did they prepare any list of inter se seniority between the employees working in Anna University, Chennai and Anna University, Trichy, the petitioners said.
They further claimed that no UGC regulation or All India Council for Technical Education guideline is followed in the present drive. They said the university ought to have considered the petitioners for promotion, but failed to do so.
Hence, they prayed the court's direction to the university to keep one post of associate professor vacant in respect of each candidate for the appointment of the petitioners to the said post by promotion in the event of their success in the writ petition. They also sought to stay the notification as interim relief and to quash the same as illegal.
They further wanted the court to direct the university to promote the petitioners as associate professor in the concerned department of the university.
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