The State Higher Education Department has asked the Director of Collegiate Education to issue an order stating that the tenure of the 370 surplus teaching staff recruited by Annamalai University, who are currently working as assistant professors in various government arts and science colleges, will be extended for another term of three years.
According to an order issued by the department, the redeployment was necessitated as the Registrar of the university had informed the department that the institution’s financial burden had not been “retrieved”, and “the University is not in a position to take back the surplus staff”.
The registrar had, in a letter written in January 2022, noted that the agreement to redeploy the surplus staff, executed on February 1, 2019, was about to expire.
