WE HAVE LOST VERY GOOD TEACHERS AT SIKKIM UNIVERSITY

Letter:
With reference to your report titled “Faculty allege irregularities in SU recruitment process” of 28 February 2012, we, on behalf of all the students of Sikkim University (Social Sciences), would like to tell you that whatever they have said about selection committee failure in providing fair selection of associate/ assistance professors’, we cannot opine, but we can say that we have lost many good teachers. We can’t say that the committee has selected not good teachers, but we can’t stop ourselves from saying that they have ignored very good teachers. Most of them are very much supportive to us, they often encourage all the students whether they are from a particular department or not. Apart from teaching regular classes or from syllabus, they taught us or tried to make us able to write other national competitive examinations. Even without getting extra pay for their classes to students, they taught us very hard. But now we don’t get that kind of encouragement, exposure or classes for our mental development, which is really going to become negative aspect of the selection committee’s decision. God knows on what basis they didn’t get selected for permanent lectureship in our university. It might be because we, the students of Sikkim University, don’t have the fortune to have those very good teachers. We even don’t know the process of selection but if we would have got the chance to choose our own teachers, we wouldn’t have lost so many good teachers of ours.
Mahendra Prasad Gurung [recvd on email]