by aditya wadhawanthe situation of regularisation of adhoc teachers across universities and colleges in the country has put the jobs of many teachers in limbo in the absence of a proper mechanism for the regularisation of adhoc teachers contractual teachers are being removed from their positions irrespective of their academic recordsthe unfortunate death of a 33yearold professor working as an adhoc at hindu college du has raised the issue of regulation in jobs for faculty the education ministry in a reply to a parliamentary question in july last year said that there were a total of 6549 vacant faculty positions across 45 central universities cu the data shared by the ministry on march 13 2023 revealed that no adhoc teacher was engaged in the prestigious central universities like jamia millia islamia jmi and jawaharlal nehru university jnu from april 1 2018 to april 1 2022 speaking to education times sachin n associate professor of english dyal singh college du says the figure of 6549 vacant faculty positions acknowledged by the education ministry during the parliamentary reply on march 13 2023 is not exactly true several cus do not just have various departments but plenty of affiliated colleges which means that there are far more vacant seats in comparison to what was revealed by the ministrydu itself had 4000 plus vacant positions in its affiliated colleges in addition to the ones mentioned in the reply iits iims and other institutions of national importance also have several vacant positions in the reserved categories that have not been filled so far the rule is that if a vacant position has been created it should be filled by permanent appointment within four months and yet the adhoc colleagues have been working for the past two decades the central government is not keen on the immediate regularisation of serving adhoc teachers as this will increase the input cost in many du colleges the salaries of adhoc teachers have not been paid for months says sachin highlighting the governments ignorance of social justice in academiathe fact that rosters in heis are often controversial and challenged while the dopt roster of the central government departments is not so compromised attests to an active subversion of constitutional provisions allowed to go on in the academia informs sachin anil joseph pinto registrar christ university bangalore the issue of regularisation of adhoc teachers varies for cus state universities and private universities in the central universities the issue is mostly for those with undergraduate sections where the issue of adhoc arrangement has persisted both for political and financial reasons added to this there is a lack of political will to implement an effective regulatory mechanism for the regularisation of adhoc teachersugc has announced a single portal cu chayan for the recruitment of teachers for central universities state universities do not have the budget to hire more permanent faculties hence several teachers are working on an adhoc basis the reluctance in filling vacancies in state universities has also been due to the