BHUBANESWAR: The higher education department has decided to engage retired staff for a certain period in state public universities to tide over the problem of shortage of non-teaching staff.
“To address the vacancy problem, 20 retired government or university employees may be engaged against vacant posts of junior assistants, senior assistants, section officers, assistant librarians, laboratory assistant-cum-storekeeper and group D posts,” said additional secretary, higher education department, Birendra Korkora, wrote to the universities recently.