Honorable Chief Minister Shri Revanth Reddy Garu,

We, the members of the Global Telangana Educated Collective, representing concerned citizens, alumni, academics, professionals, students, and well-wishers from all sections of society, make this urgent appeal to your government to expedite the long-pending process of faculty recruitment in Telangana’s state universities.

We deeply appreciate the bold ambition reflected in Telangana Vision 2047. The vision of making Telangana a globally competitive, innovation-driven, knowledge-based, and prosperous state is inspiring. However, without the foundation of highly skilled human resources — scientists, engineers, technocrats, researchers, teachers, innovators, and public leaders — this vision will be difficult to realize. Strong public universities must be at the center of Telangana’s future.

We also welcome the ongoing effort to frame the Telangana Education Policy 2026, which can become a historic opportunity to rebuild public education from schools to universities. However, any meaningful education policy must begin with strengthening public universities through permanent faculty recruitment, research capacity, academic autonomy, and institutional investment.

We also sincerely appreciate your government’s announcement of Rs. 1,000 crores for Osmania University infrastructure. This is a bold and welcome move. At the same time, we respectfully request a similar one-time investment for the rest of Telangana’s state universities, especially rural universities that urgently need academic and institutional strengthening.

Telangana’s public universities have historically educated first-generation learners, rural students, marginalized communities, backward classes, Dalits, Adivasis, minorities, women, and economically weaker sections. Institutions such as Osmania University, Kakatiya University, Prof. Jayashankar Telangana Agriculture University, and others are not merely academic institutions; they are engines of social mobility, regional development, research, innovation, and public leadership.

Unfortunately, these universities are now facing a severe faculty crisis. Many are reportedly functioning with only 20–25% of sanctioned faculty strength. There has been little or no regular faculty recruitment for more than 15 years, while hundreds of professors have retired. In the absence of permanent faculty, universities are forced to depend heavily on contract and part-time lecturers. While these teachers are committed, no university can sustain quality teaching, research, mentoring, doctoral supervision, and institutional growth without a strong base of permanent faculty.

The situation is especially alarming in Osmania University, where several departments are operating with very few or, in some cases, no permanent faculty members. A university of such historic importance cannot be allowed to decline due to prolonged vacancies.

The crisis is even more severe in the rural universities established during the YSR period: Telangana University, Satavahana University, Palamuru University, Mahatma Gandhi University, and Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies. These institutions were created to expand access to higher education beyond Hyderabad and Warangal, but without adequate faculty, they are struggling to fulfill their founding mission.

This is not merely an administrative issue; it is a matter of educational justice and Telangana’s future development. When public universities weaken, students from rural and marginalized communities suffer the most. The absence of regular faculty also weakens research, postgraduate education, doctoral programs, academic standards, and the competitiveness of Telangana’s youth.

Telangana has a remarkable pool of highly educated scholars and professionals, including candidates with doctorates from IITs, central universities, leading national institutions, and foreign universities. With timely, transparent, and independent recruitment without political interference, the state can attract outstanding faculty who can shape the next generation of skilled workers, scientists, innovators, administrators, and leaders.

We respectfully urge the Government of Telangana to:

• Immediately issue notifications to fill all sanctioned vacant faculty positions.
• Complete recruitment through a transparent, time-bound process without political interference.
• Prioritize rural universities with extremely low permanent faculty strength.
• Allocate a one-time strengthening grant to all state universities for infrastructure, laboratories, libraries, digital systems, and research facilities.
• Strengthen research, doctoral supervision, laboratories, and academic departments alongside recruitment.
• Ensure social justice and constitutional reservations in all recruitment.
• Create a long-term staffing plan to prevent repeated faculty shortages.

Honorable Chief Minister, Telangana Vision 2047 and the proposed Telangana Education Policy 2026 cannot be achieved through infrastructure and policy announcements alone. They require strong public universities, active research ecosystems, innovation-driven departments, and committed faculty who can prepare the next generation for a new era of development and prosperity.

We appeal to you to act with urgency and vision. Faculty recruitment is not an expense; it is an investment in Telangana’s future and the foundation for scientific capacity, technological innovation, social justice, and inclusive growth.

We request your personal intervention to rebuild Telangana’s universities as centers of excellence, research, innovation, social mobility, and public service — and as true engines for fulfilling Telangana Vision 2047 and the aspirations of Telangana Education Policy 2026.

Respectfully,
Global Telangana Educated Collective
Concerned alumni, academics, professionals, students, and citizens from Telangana and the global Telangana diaspora.

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