The new universities are established in semi-urban areas so the professors and others are reluctant to leave major cities and work in semi- urban areas.
Five years after setting up nine new universities in various districts across Andhra Pradesh, the state government has not rationalised the faculty and non-teaching staff in these new universities.
As a result, the old universities have excess staff while the new universities have an acute shortage of staff.
The new universities were formed after reducing the jurisdiction of the old universities, so hundreds of constituent colleges and pri
vate colleges affiliated to the old universities were shifted to the new universities, considerably reducing the work burden on the old universities. The staff strength, though, continued to remain the same For instance, Osmania University earlier had about 700 staff members with a jurisdiction of 800 affiliation colleges. Today, the number has been reduced to 400 colleges.
However, OU
