Srinagar, July 15: Minister for Higher Education, Labour and Employment on Sunday kick started an interactive session with college students putting up at hostels.
The interactive session started from SP College while the Hostel Advisory Council hosted the event.
The minister interacted and enquired about their background including the place where hailing from.
The minister threw light on the “benefits of living in hostel”. Malik spoke about increasing and improving the hostel facilities in all the colleges of the State. He also desired to have suggestion boxes installed in the hostels so as to get feedback from the students for improving the system of management and infrastructure of the hostels.
In his welcome address, Dr. Nazir Ahmad Gikar, the Principal of the college “stressed on the four parameters of confidence, communication, content and competencies for comprehensive success in this technology driven world to improve upon employability quotient.”
Hostelers, on the occasion, presented a brief cultural programme comprising a Sheena Song, a Skit and a Nazam besides the recitation of Kalam-i-Pak and Naat-e- Sarwar (SAW).
The vote of thanks was proposed by Prof. Zahoor Ahmad Chatt, the Nodal Principal of the Valley Colleges. Prof. Chatt congratulated the boarders for getting a chance to share their experiences with one another belonging, as they do, to different / distant corners of the valley and Ladakh. This, in his opinion, promotes cohesiveness.
Prof Bashir Ahmad Mir the convenor of the event.
College Teachers Association meets Hr Edu Minister
Srinagar, July 15: A joint delegation of J&K College Teachers Association Sunday met the Minister for Higher Education Abdul Gani Malik to sort the ‘impasse’ created by the recent Public Service Commission’s recommendations regarding career advancement scheme.
 “It was done in contravention of earlier placement orders of Higher Education Department which retrospectively placed the teachers from their actual due dates of personal promotions,” the association said in a statement.
It said the minister had been apprised about the issue regarding the recommendation presented at the Department Promotional Committee by PSC.
The association statement said the minister appraised the delegation that he had already directed the department to return the cases to DPC/PSC for reconsideration.
The president CTA, Prof. Tariq Ashai highlighted that no DPC meet has been convened from the last three years which has already created chaos and confusion amongst the College teaching community, the statement said. The joint delegation led by Prof. Tariq Ashai (President CTA Kashmir) and Prof. Awinash Gupta (President CTA Jammu).

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