The University of Burdwan was established in the year 1960 as a public university. The university is located at Bardhaman, West Bengal. The university was started off as a teaching and affiliating university under the Government of West bengal. Intially, the university started off with total six Graduate departments and thirty undergraduate colleges. At present, the university offers thirty graduate programmes. There are total 139 affiliated colleges associated with the university. Mr. Mayankote Kelath Narayanan is the Chancellor of the university while Mr. Debidas Chattoraj is the Vice Chancellor.

Job Profile:

Eligible and qualified candidates are invited to apply for the vacant faculty positions of Professor, Assistant Professor and Core faculty in Sanskrit in the University of Burdwan. Only eligible Indian Nationals are invited to apply for the following posts:

Vacancies of Professor are available in the disciplines of Education, History and Physics:

1. Recruitment of Professor:
No. of posts: Only 1 post is available.
Educational Qualification: Ph.D degree from a recognized institute or university with minimum 60% marks in aggregate at the Master’s level. Candidates should possess a good academic record throughout. Candidates should also possess minimum 10 years experience in the research or teaching field.

Vacancies of Assistant Professor are available in the disciplines of Mathematics, Sanskrit, Education for I.S.E., Chemsirty for I.S.E., Chemistry, Computer Science, Statistics, Biotechnology, Zoology, Environmental Science, Microbiology, Library & Information Science, Business Administration (Human Resource), Mass Communication, Foreign Language (Chinese Studies), Seed technology, Bio Fertilizer, Centre for Human Resource Development and Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies:

2. Recruitment of Assistant Professor:
No. of posts: Only 1 post is available.
Educational Qualification: Master’s degree in concerned discipline from a recognized institute or university. Research experience in the relevant field is also need to be possessed by the candidates besides the prescribed educational qualification.

Vacancies of Core Faculty in Sanskrit are available under Directorate of Distance Education:

3. Recruitment of Core faculty in Sanskrit (on Contract basis):
No. of posts: Only 5 posts are available.
Educational Qualification: Candidates should possess good academic record with Master’s degree in Sanskrit from a recognized university or college. Minimum 60% marks in aggregate is required at Master’s level. for the Candidates should also possess adequate teaching experience.

Application Fee:

Candidates are required to send the crossed demand draft or Cash Challan of the University Cash Counter, of requisite application fee alongwith their completed application form. The demand draft should be drawn in favour of Registrar/ Finance Officer, University of Burdwan. Application fee recieved through any other mode is not acceptable under any circumstances.

How to apply: Completed application form in the prescribed format should reach to the below mentioned address on or before the last date. Application form accompanied by the copies of required certificates or testimonials, are need to be sent in an envelope. The envelope should be superscribed with the name of the post applied for.

Registrar,
The University of Burdwan.
Rajbati, Bardhaman - 713104, West Bengal.

Contact Details:

The University of Burdwan.
Rajbati, Bardhaman - 713104, West Bengal.

Last date to apply: 13 Janaury 2012

For more information visit http://www.buruniv.ac.in