allahabad motilal nehru national institute of technology mnnit faculty members on wednesday wore black ribbons and staged a protest at the administrative block against implementation of fourtier flexible faculty structure the demonstration was a part of the twoday protest by teachers as per the resolution passed in the general body meeting of mnnit teachers association on monday to express their disagreement on the issue the faculty members would stage a demonstration on thursday too on wednesday faculty members assembled in front of administrative block to express their resolve to register the protest strongly the protest gathering however did not affect the academic and administrative work in accordance with the teachers decision and the same would remain unaffected on proposed thursdays protest as per the decision of the members of the association all faculty members would go on mass casual leave on friday in continuation with the protest said prof rs yadav president of mnnit teachers association the teachers are upset with the mhrd letter fno 339 2011 ts iii goi mhrd dated january15 2014 that introduces fourtier flexible faculty structure in nit the letter has completely overturned the norms circulated vide letter no fno3392011tsiii government of india mhrd department of higher education nits division dated august 23 2013 regarding implementation of 4tier flexible faculty structure in the nits by raising the essential qualifications for different posts irrationally and that too suddenly it says that there would be no automatic migration and there would be interview for same designation to move from 3tier to 4tier structure for all faculty members said prof yadav