MCA, MSc grads allowed to teach in engg colleges: AICTE

Indore: In a major relief for thousands of candidates, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has made MCA and MSc graduates eligible for recruitment on teaching posts in engineering colleges. The relief has come for the candidates after almost six long years of protest. Several candidates had lost their jobs after AICTE debarred them from teaching.Making amendments in the rules, AICTE has released a fresh gazette notification permitting candidates, who have finished ME or MTech or PhD in Computer Science/IT after acquiring MCA, MSc in maths, physics, electronics, computer science and allied subjects, to take up teaching jobs.
The clarification has been given by the apex committee on the representation received in response to the AICTE notice dated February 22, 2016. It states that existing incumbents recruited as faculty with the basic minimum qualification mentioned in the gazette published on January 2016 as well as those who have secured admission to these courses before publication of AICTE gazette notification dated March 10, 2010, are to be considered for Career Advancement Scheme (CAS) as well as for direct recruitment subject to fulfillment of other eligibility criteria and higher qualifications prescribed, if any, for various teaching posts.
Many lecturers and assistant professors with similar qualifications earlier in jobs in technical institutions across the state had been facing uncertain future. However, with this clarification, they will have a chance at teaching jobs now.