118 posts sanctioned for SNGOU
The Hindu
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The Government has sanctioned 118 posts for the Sree Narayana Guru Open University (SNGOU) to launch 12 undergraduate and five postgraduate courses.
Those sanctioned include 56 teaching posts, including four posts for directors of the university’s designated regional centres and five for the heads of its study centres. These posts are intended to be filled on deputation. The others which include posts for 46 assistant professors and the director for the Centre for Internal Quality Assurance are meant to be filled on contract basis.
Around 440 MBBS graduates of 2021 are not required to undergo one year of compulsory rural service as per the bond signed by them while joining the medical course through government-quota seats in 2015 as the High Court of Karnataka has said the law, enacted in 2012 for mandatory rural service, remained unenforced for 10 years as it was published in the official gazette only in July 2022.