Archaeology post-graduates facing neglect

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Follow us:WhatsappFacebookTwitterTelegram.cls-1{fill:#4d4d4d;}.cls-2{fill:#fff;}Google NewsPost-graduates in Archaeology who have passed out of the Kerala University since its first batch was started in 2001 are remaining jobless, despite having good academic records, due to apathy of the government in recruiting eligible candidates for the Archaeology Department.It has been pointed out that no one in the state Archaeology department is holding a post-graduate degree in Archaeology even when there are scores of post-graduates, M Phil and PhD holders who are remaining jobless for more than a decade.In the 2001-2009 period, 60 students had passed the MA Archaeology course with first class, with 32 of them passed NET and four gaining JRF.Two more batches have also completed the course but with no breakthrough in their struggle to get a job in the Archaeology Department. Director of Archaeology, Superintending Archaeologist, Epigraphist, Documentation officer, Artist Superintendent, Education officer, Epigraphy Assistant, Excavationist, Curator and Publication officer are all posts to be filled by direct recruitment.All these posts require a post-graduate degree in Archaeology /History/ Malayalam/Sanskrit. For some posts, even Chemistry postgraduates can apply.According to a memorandum submitted to the State Cultural Affairs Minister by the Pouranik Forum of Archaeology Students of Kariavattom campus, while many of the posts are required to be filled by post-graduates in Archaeology through direct recruitment, the department is opting to fill the posts through promotion.Post-graduates complain that for more than one year the post of the Director of Department of Archaeology is remaining vacant for want of people with required qualification.‘’There is not even a single person to entrust with the ‘in charge’ post in the Archaeology Department. So they had to entrust it with the Director of Archives Department,’’ said Ajeesh Krishnan, a postgraduate in Archaeology who passed out in 2004 from the Kerala University.“Those who get recruited as clerks can reach the top post through promotion. For making them eligible, they would complete a certificate course which is not at all on par with a post-graduate degree course in Archaeology,’’ they pointed out. “Our request is to amend the special rules of the year 2000 in the archeology Department,” the postgraduates said.first published:August 28, 2012, 12:35 ISTlast updated:August 28, 2012, 12:35 IST
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Post-graduates in Archaeology who have passed out of the Kerala University since its first batch was started in 2001 are remaining jobless, despite having good academic records, due to apathy of the government in recruiting eligible candidates for the Archaeology Department.

It has been pointed out that no one in the state Archaeology department is holding a post-graduate degree in Archaeology even when there are scores of post-graduates, M Phil and PhD holders who are remaining jobless for more than a decade.

In the 2001-2009 period, 60 students had passed the MA Archaeology course with first class, with 32 of them passed NET and four gaining JRF.

Two more batches have also completed the course but with no breakthrough in their struggle to get a job in the Archaeology Department. Director of Archaeology, Superintending Archaeologist, Epigraphist, Documentation officer, Artist Superintendent, Education officer, Epigraphy Assistant, Excavationist, Curator and Publication officer are all posts to be filled by direct recruitment.

All these posts require a post-graduate degree in Archaeology /History/ Malayalam/Sanskrit. For some posts, even Chemistry postgraduates can apply.

According to a memorandum submitted to the State Cultural Affairs Minister by the Pouranik Forum of Archaeology Students of Kariavattom campus, while many of the posts are required to be filled by post-graduates in Archaeology through direct recruitment, the department is opting to fill the posts through promotion.

Post-graduates complain that for more than one year the post of the Director of Department of Archaeology is remaining vacant for want of people with required qualification.

‘’There is not even a single person to entrust with the ‘in charge’ post in the Archaeology Department. So they had to entrust it with the Director of Archives Department,’’ said Ajeesh Krishnan, a postgraduate in Archaeology who passed out in 2004 from the Kerala University.

“Those who get recruited as clerks can reach the top post through promotion. For making them eligible, they would complete a certificate course which is not at all on par with a post-graduate degree course in Archaeology,’’ they pointed out. “Our request is to amend the special rules of the year 2000 in the archeology Department,” the postgraduates said.