BHUBANESWAR, Oct. 24 -- The method of short-listing and selection adopted by the Higher Education Department in a recent requisition for recruitment to 606 posts of Lecturers for degree colleges has disappointed jobseekers as it stifles competition and kills meritocracy.
Instead of adopting a transparent method of recruitment based on objective written test and interview for lecturers in non-Government Colleges, the Higher Education Department has adopted career assessment as the selection method despite an advisory by OPSC and GA Department that it is faulty, cumbersome and an injustice to meritorious candidates.
Further, the department is also contemplating to adopt interview as the only method of selection after protests against career...