trichy decks have been cleared for the appointment of 54 regular teaching staff in bharathidasan university after it got the approval from the state higher education departmentonly a few months ago the higher education department had asked the university to mend its arithmetic in adopting the reservation policy for appointments but it has now given its nod after getting clearance from the personnel and administrative reforms p and ar departmentthe university had called for applications in july last year for direct appointment of 54 faculty positions it followed the union government which had in march last year brought an ordinance restoring 200point roster for recruitment by considering the whole university as a single unit for calculating vacancieswhile this was in contrast with the state policy the then secretary higher education department mangat ram sharma had pointed in a letter to the university that the ordinance by the union government is applicable only to the central educational institutions and bdu a state university doesnt fall in that categorythe higher education secretary in a letter dated august 28 2019 had asked all the 13 state universities to treat each department as single unit to reserve teaching posts of professors associate professors and assistant professorsseeking exception from the state government for recruitment the university chose to go ahead with the recruitment process than waiting for response from the state governmentcoming under criticism even from political parties on the reservation policy adopted higher education minister k p anbalagan directed the university to get clearance from the personnel and administrative reforms p and ar department before going ahead with the recruitmentp and ar department has suggested the administrative department that the higher education department can take a decision on it said higher education secretary apoorva while speaking to toiwe had allowed anna university back in 201415 to consider the whole institute as a single unit for appointment therefore we chose to do the same with bharathidasan university she said