Shortage of faculty. Is there any?
The agitation leaders have raised the issue of shortage of faculty in DCE/DTU. Ever since DTU came in existence in July 2009 not only the university has added to its faculty strength in good number, new regular faculty who were selected earlier joined the university in addition to around 60 contract faculty on regular scale has also been recruited. Further near 93 lecturers position (including the positions for new programs) were advertised in DEC 2009 and as per the information with DTU times approx. 3500 applications have been received and that the regular faculty recruitments through the duly constituted selection committees (as per the DTU act) have already begun from March 5th 2010 are continuing. This is one of the major decisions taken by DTU to provide quality faculty for its academic programs. To our knowledge never before such a major recruitment drive has ever happened and that to with a compressed time frame.
We should appreciate the initiative rather than condemning as the student community will be the major beneficiary from the quality faculty in DTU.