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| Mr.AKHILESH YADAV CM UP |
The special secretary higher education, government of Uttar
Pradesh, has issued an order for extending the implementation date of Academic
Performance Indicators (API) on Tuesday.
The existing API despite few amendments in the past was not
favorable to teachers who only do teaching and was also resulting in poor
quality research and publication in all sorts of academic journals.
The teachers of post graduate colleges were the sufferers of
promotion avenues which were at the dead end have now got the heave of relax
after the government decision.
The contentious Academic Performance Indicators (API) that had
the university and PG Colleges teaching community up in arms across the Uttar
Pradesh since 2015 has been modified.
The teachers whose promotions were not considered because of
API hurdle are eligible to be promoted.
The LUACTA was demanding to extend the cut of date
continuously.
LUACTA president, Dr Manoj Pandey said, “The Samajwadi
government has been always taking decision in the favour of teachers. The chief
minister understood our agony, and has removed the hurdle in promotion pending
long ago to the teachers.”
According to the report, the UGC had implemented the decision by
its notification for the promotion of teachers since 30 June 2010, in which the
teachers were to be promoted under the norms of API reckoning across the
country.
The state government of Uttar Pradesh modified it on 3 December
2013 and relating order was issued on may 2015; but it was counting performance
of teachers under API when the notification was effected, and it caused a
promotion hurdle.
In the API, under the
category of teachinglearningevaluation, a teacher will have to annually get 100
points at the level of assistant professor, 90 at the level of associate
professor and 80 for professors. Student evaluation has been introduced.
