Kakinada, July 22 -- Contract assistant professors of the University College of Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University-Kakinada (JNTUK), staged a protest in front of the university's administrative building on Wednesday, demanding regularisation of their services and job security.
Responding to a call given by their state association, the faculty members said many of them had been serving as contract assistant professors for nearly two decades and urged the government to regularise their services before undertaking fresh recruitment.
The protesters also objected to the preparation of a list declaring hundreds of contract assistant professors ineligible for appointment as associate professors, terming the move unjust.
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