STAFF REPORTER
GUWAHATI: The Directorate of Higher Education, which runs around 450 institutions of higher education, continues to function with around 40 percent of its sanctioned posts lying vacant. According to sources in the directorate, the paucity of manpower is indeed a challenge for it to work smoothly.
The Directorate has only 48 men in positions against the sanctioned number of 80. The posts lying vacant include a post of joint director, a post of inspector of colleges, a post of assistant director of education planning and coordination, a post of research officer, a post of research assistant, a post of accountant, a post of stenographer, a post of superintendent, a post of auditor, a post of senior assistant, 15 posts of junior assistant, and seven posts of grade IV.
The Department of Higher Education implements its various schemes and communicates with the institutions of higher education through this directorate. The workload of the directorate can be gauged from the fact that it has 12 state universities, five government colleges, 321 provincialized colleges, five Pandit Deendayal Upadhaya Adarsha Mahavidyalayas, six government model colleges, and 97 provincialized Sanskrit and Pali Tols under its jurisdiction.
Apart from providing quality education to all and ensuring to produce employable manpower, the Directorate looks after the service conditions of teaching and non-teaching staff of provincialized and government model colleges, allots funds to these institutions, supervises SOPD (State Owned Priority Development) expenditure, etc. The Directorate is also the appointing authority for headquarters staff and the teaching and non-teaching staff of colleges.
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