In 2008 I got recruited to the post of asst professor in an autonomous dental institution under government of Karnataka. At the time of my recruitment there were four teaching cadres in the institute namely, Dean cum director, Professor, Asst Professor /reader and lecturer as per DCI regulation. There are eight specialty departments with one professor in each department and with 2, 3and 4 asst professor in various departments depending on the workload and presence of paramedical courses in different departments. The scale for lecturer is starting from 8000, for asst professor 12000 and for professor 18000. After I got recruited, in 2009, 4 assistant professors were upgraded to associate professor with the basic starting from 16400, to facilitate monetary benefit to overcome stagnation. First in the governing council only the first asst professors in each department were upgraded .later in two department’s second asst professors were upgraded. I am in the department where there are 3 asst professor posts. When the second asst professor was upgraded I was in my probationary period though I had in total more teaching experience in DCI recognized institutes. In the whole college so far only 1 and 2 asst professors are upgraded. Along with me as per same G.o order 4 assistant professors have been recruited. Now, after probationary declaration, I have applied for up gradation for associate professor. I have been denied up gradation saying that there is no vacancy and 3 posts can’t be upgraded in the same department. Others who were recruited along with me for the same cadre are being considered for up gradation. I have learnt that if one officer belonging to one batch recruited for the same cadre is considered for up gradation of the post then all the other officers in the same cadre belonging to the same batch should be considered and that up gradation of the post is dynamic and does not depend on vacancy? What action should I take creation of this post results in great hindrance to my career. What should I do?
