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**Summary:**

Faculty members at Tamil Nadu Open University (TNOU) staged a brief strike on July 2nd, 2025, protesting their deployment to other government colleges and other grievances related to faculty shortages. The university, despite offering numerous programs and having a large student body, only has 36 faculty members spread across 32 departments. The strike ended after the Vice-Chancellor assured them their concerns would be addressed and a meeting would be held.

**News Article:**

**Tamil Nadu Open University Faculty Stage Short Strike Over Staffing Concerns**

**CHENNAI, July 3, 2025** – Faculty members at the Tamil Nadu Open University (TNOU) held a flash strike Wednesday evening to protest staff deployments and related grievances. The strike, which lasted several hours, centered on concerns that the university’s already limited faculty resources are being stretched thin by deployments to other government colleges.

Faculty members claim that the university, with approximately 35,000 students enrolled in various programs, operates with a mere 36 faculty members across 32 departments. They fear that deploying faculty to other institutions will leave departments severely understaffed. Concerns were also raised about the transfer of faculty to administrative positions in regional centers, further depleting teaching resources.

“The deployment of faculty members to other government colleges would leave the respective departments without any faculty. Besides, a few faculty members were transferred to regional centres, which were largely an administrative postings, a year ago and their respective departments fell vacant. The striking members wanted their colleagues to be transferred back to their parent departments.”, one of the striking faculty members said.

The strike concluded after Vice-Chancellor S. Arumugam assured the faculty that their concerns would be investigated and invited them to a meeting next week. “The modalities of the deployment will be worked out in consultation with the faculty members and the government before implementation.” Prof. Arumugam told The Hindu over the phone.

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