Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Thursday approved൲ the proposal to fill up hundreds of existing teaching vacancies in universities and Indian Institutes of Informati🎐on Technology (IIITs) regularly.
He issued these directions while carrying out a review of the Education Department, which will l🌳ead to the appointment of 2,635 assistant professors, associate professors, and professor posts in universities and 600 similar positions in IIITs.
"As we have filled up 51,000 posts in the Medical and Health Department, we should fill up existing vacancies in the universities also regularly," Reddy said in a press rel꧟ease.
The appointment process will be taken up by the Andhra𒊎 Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC) through onlin🧸e examination mode, followed by interviews to be completed by November 15.
Meanwhile, 🌳officials proposed that existing candidates extending teaching services on a contractual basis should be givenജ a maximum weightage of 10 marks at the rate of one mark a year in these selections.
Notification for this recruitment will be issued on August 23 and the examinations will be scheduled in the ♐third and fourth weeks of September.