Improve varsity’s finances: senate
Special Correspondent
CHENNAI, March 31, 2019 00:00 IST
Professors raise issue of Madras University’s deficit budget
Senators of the University of Madras wanted the Vice-Chancellor to find ways to improve the finances of the institution.
At the senate meeting on Saturday, many senior professors raised the issue of deficit budget of the institution and urged the V-C, an economist by training, to find solutions. For the financial year 2019-20, the University has posted an estimated Rs. 84.92-crore deficit budget, against the revised estimate of Rs. 61.02 crore in 2018-19 and Rs. 60.36 crore in the financial year 2017-18.
The debate was set in motion by S. Karunanidhi, head of Psychology department, who wanted to know the status of work done by the various centres the institution had set up over the years. For years, University professors had maintained that many of the centres were in name only. The University Grants Commission had refused grants to many of them for non-compliance.
Vice-Chancellor P. Duraisamy said: “Some of the decisions we have taken are within our statutes and Acts and not in the purview of the government orders. The government has approved of posts sanctioned before 1.1.96. Whatever posts that we have created after that, the (payment of) salary has been disallowed.”
The University had transferred faculty from various departments to the newly created centres against the UGC norms, resulting in funds cut by the Commission. According to him, while the expenditure had increased, the University had not revised the examination or course fee for nearly 15 years, leading to a stagnation of revenues.
Special Correspondent
CHENNAI, March 31, 2019 00:00 IST
Professors raise issue of Madras University’s deficit budget
Senators of the University of Madras wanted the Vice-Chancellor to find ways to improve the finances of the institution.
At the senate meeting on Saturday, many senior professors raised the issue of deficit budget of the institution and urged the V-C, an economist by training, to find solutions. For the financial year 2019-20, the University has posted an estimated Rs. 84.92-crore deficit budget, against the revised estimate of Rs. 61.02 crore in 2018-19 and Rs. 60.36 crore in the financial year 2017-18.
The debate was set in motion by S. Karunanidhi, head of Psychology department, who wanted to know the status of work done by the various centres the institution had set up over the years. For years, University professors had maintained that many of the centres were in name only. The University Grants Commission had refused grants to many of them for non-compliance.
Vice-Chancellor P. Duraisamy said: “Some of the decisions we have taken are within our statutes and Acts and not in the purview of the government orders. The government has approved of posts sanctioned before 1.1.96. Whatever posts that we have created after that, the (payment of) salary has been disallowed.”
The University had transferred faculty from various departments to the newly created centres against the UGC norms, resulting in funds cut by the Commission. According to him, while the expenditure had increased, the University had not revised the examination or course fee for nearly 15 years, leading to a stagnation of revenues.
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