Recruit assistant professors in transparent manner: Bihar education minister

PATNA: Education minister Vijay Kumar Choudhary has asked the Bihar State University Service Commission (

BSUSC

) to ensure appointment of 4,638 assistant professors in 13 universities in a fair and transparent manner.

Discussing the mode of their appointment with the chairman and the members of the BSUSC on Friday, Choudhary said efforts should be made to select the most talented candidates as assistant professors in 52 subjects so that “the standard of higher education improves”.

“The interviews should be held in a cordial atmosphere and calculation of marks done in a transparent manner. Besides, selection of candidates should be made without any bias,” the minister said.

BSUSC chairman Raj Vardhan Azad apprised the minister of the progress made by the commission in subject-wise screening of the candidates and finalising their interview schedules.

Later, Azad told this newspaper that the interviews of candidates in 15 different subjects would be completed by the end of August.

State higher education secretary Asangba Chuba Ao also accompanied the education minister.