AP To Promote Associate Profs With One Year Experience
To address a shortage of teaching staff and secure NMC permissions for 2025-26 admissions, the Andhra Pradesh government will promote associate professors with just one year of experience as professors in government medical colleges.
By : Sampat G. Samritan
Update: 2025-07-14 17:08 GMT
Vijayawada: The Andhra Pradesh government has deferred the appointment of professors in the government medical colleges on contract basis and will promote the associate professors with one year experience as professors by relaxing the norm of three years experience as a one time opportunity.
Though it is mandatory to have three years of experience as an associate professor to be elevated as a professor, as per norms of National Medical Commission, Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has given his consent to promote the associate professors with one year experience as professors.
Health minister Satya Kumar Yadav said on Monday that the AP government took the decision to relax the norm given promotion for associate professors with one year experience as professors due to shortage of professors in the government medical colleges and to get permission from the NMC to take up admission of students in the medical colleges for 2025-26. He said they were facing shortage of professors in government medical colleges located in Vizianagaram, Paderu, Rajamahendravaram, Eluru, Machilipatnam and Nandyal and the relaxation in the eligibility norm would help to fill up the vacant posts of professors in these colleges.
Moreover, with regard to filling up shortage of associate professors in the medical colleges, they would promote the assistant professors as per norms, the minister said. He added that they would continue the walk-in interviews to recruit assistant professors to overcome their shortage.