THE BOARD of Governors (BoG) of HBTI has taken several important decisions in a meeting held here on Friday. The decisions include giving freedom to the HBTI director to initiate various academic promotional schemes from next academic session.
The BoG also allowed the institute authorities to fill up all vacant posts both teaching and non-teaching as early as possible. At present 110 non-teaching and 30 teaching posts are lying vacant. After the decision of the BoG, the institute authorities have begun exercise to fill up these vacancies.
Besides, the Board also gave its nod for appointment of temporary teachers for one-year contract with a fixed salary of Rs 10,000 pm. So far these teachers were appointed on Rs 200 per lecture and the maximum payment was Rs 5000 pm. There was even no guarantee that they would continue next month. But now the temporary teachers can feel secure at least for one-year.
However, the BoG rejected the proposal of the Institute that it be allowed to appoint teachers against the total salary of the teachers whose posts were lying vacant.
For running the M Tech course, the BoG allowed the institute to utilise 50 percent of fees it received from the students in meeting the salary bill of the guest lecturers appointed on course completion contract. These lecturers would be paid Rs 500 per lecture. Number of lectures would be decided according to the volume of the course and the syllabus by the heads of departments.The BoG further advised the institute to hold separate interviews for teachers under the Personal Promotional Scheme and Regular category.
{{/usCountry}}For running the M Tech course, the BoG allowed the institute to utilise 50 percent of fees it received from the students in meeting the salary bill of the guest lecturers appointed on course completion contract. These lecturers would be paid Rs 500 per lecture. Number of lectures would be decided according to the volume of the course and the syllabus by the heads of departments.The BoG further advised the institute to hold separate interviews for teachers under the Personal Promotional Scheme and Regular category.
{{/usCountry}}The board also raised the amount for instituting Gold Medal in anyone’s memory from Rs 25,000 to 50,000. The decision was likely to discourage the people or the organizations.
The board rejected the proposal for inclusion of one or two office-bearers of the Teachers Association in the BoG. It also turned down the proposal for setting up an International HBTI Alumni Cell at the Institute and suggested that the matter should be placed at the next meeting of the BoG. The decision has discouraged the efforts of the Institute in uniting its alumni all over the globe and to seek their participation in assisting the Institute with their might.
Similarly, the board advised the institute authorities to include the issue of granting status of state university to the institute in the next meeting.
According to institute authorities they had presented the issue at the board meeting in a hurry and it was not included in the agenda. The BoG members did not prefer it lawful to discuss the important issues raised through a supplementary agenda at the last moment.