Islamia University of Bahawalpur prioritized hiring of PhDs and recruited 128 faculty membersduring the last two years

Islamia University of Bahawalpur prioritized hiring of PhDs  and recruited 128 faculty membersduring the last two years

BAHAWAL PUR (PR): The Islamia University of Bahawalpur prioritized hiring of PhDs during the last two years and recruited 128 faculty members including Professors, Associate Professors and Assistant Professors. This was stated by Prof. Dr. Qaiser Mushtaq, Vice Chancellor during a meeting of senior officials at his office to review various administrative matters. The Vice Chancellor said that non-teaching departments at university were also lacking professionals especially key administrative posts were being run on additional charge. The university recruited professionals on merit through widely circulated advertisements across the country. Scrutiny and processing of 46000 applications of non-teaching posts pending since 2013 was also streamlined to remove back log of previous years.  As many as 562 staff members awaiting long delayed promotions were promoted to next grade as only 73 employees were promoted previously. The conduct of 9 mega selection boards in a period of two years is also a record in university’s history as there were only five selection boards held during previous three years. There were no board of faculties in the IUB, these boards were established and regular meetings were organized during these two years.  The university also followed Punjab Government’s recruitment policies for disabled persons and deceased employees, around 23 special persons and 50 widows or close relatives of decreased staff members which was a noble step neglected previously. The university also hired PhDs through HEC’s Interim Placement of Fresh PhDs Programme to boost research activities. In this way 1258 persons were hired and promoted purely on merit in both teaching and non-teaching departments. The university also focused on training and development of employees and for the first time organized training sessions in collaboration with the Federal Education Ministry, Higher Education Commission and Punjab Higher Education Commission. The federal and provincial governments as well as educational circles have hailed university’s efforts for ensuring merit based transparent recruitment process. It is important to mention here that due to all these steps HEC has recently declared IUB on 6^th position in 21 universities of Punjab for winning research grants and university is currently on 11^th position in general ranking of universities.