Ex-IAS officer resigns from varsity V-C search panel
COIMBATORE, AUGUST 01, 2019 00:00 IST
Former Higher Education Secretary K. Ganesan, who was last week appointed as the government’s nominee on the three-member search committee to shortlist names for the post of Vice Chancellor at Bharathiar University in Coimbatore, has resigned citing personal reasons.
His nomination to the Search Committee had earlier drawn criticism from a section of academics. They alleged that incompetent persons were appointed as Vice-Chancellor to some State universities during the erstwhile DMK regime when Mr. Ganesan was heading the Higher Education Department.
Confirmed
Sources in the Bharathiar University Vice-Chancellor Search Committee confirmed to The Hindu on Wednesday that Mr. Ganesan had resigned.
Earlier, he had informed the university Registrar that he would not be in a position to meet the Tamil Nadu Governor-Chancellor for a meeting that was scheduled on Wednesday evening.
The other members of the Search Committee are Syndicate nominee S.P. Thyagarajan, a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Madras, and Senate nominee C. Subramaniam, a former Vice-Chancellor of Tamil University, Thanjavur.
A section of academics expressed concern that Mr. Ganesan’s resignation would further delay the process of shortlisting names for the post of Vice-Chancellor for the university, which is headless for over one-and-a-half years.
However, Association of University Teachers State president N. Pasupathy said the Syndicate and Senate nominees to the Committee were elected six months ago and only now the Government named its nominee. It would be better if the Government were to dissolve the search committee and constitute it afresh.
That it would take another two or three months for the constitution of a new search committee did not matter because the Bharathiar University academic community had already spent more than one-and-half years without a Vice-Chancellor.
COIMBATORE, AUGUST 01, 2019 00:00 IST
Former Higher Education Secretary K. Ganesan, who was last week appointed as the government’s nominee on the three-member search committee to shortlist names for the post of Vice Chancellor at Bharathiar University in Coimbatore, has resigned citing personal reasons.
His nomination to the Search Committee had earlier drawn criticism from a section of academics. They alleged that incompetent persons were appointed as Vice-Chancellor to some State universities during the erstwhile DMK regime when Mr. Ganesan was heading the Higher Education Department.
Confirmed
Sources in the Bharathiar University Vice-Chancellor Search Committee confirmed to The Hindu on Wednesday that Mr. Ganesan had resigned.
Earlier, he had informed the university Registrar that he would not be in a position to meet the Tamil Nadu Governor-Chancellor for a meeting that was scheduled on Wednesday evening.
The other members of the Search Committee are Syndicate nominee S.P. Thyagarajan, a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Madras, and Senate nominee C. Subramaniam, a former Vice-Chancellor of Tamil University, Thanjavur.
A section of academics expressed concern that Mr. Ganesan’s resignation would further delay the process of shortlisting names for the post of Vice-Chancellor for the university, which is headless for over one-and-a-half years.
However, Association of University Teachers State president N. Pasupathy said the Syndicate and Senate nominees to the Committee were elected six months ago and only now the Government named its nominee. It would be better if the Government were to dissolve the search committee and constitute it afresh.
That it would take another two or three months for the constitution of a new search committee did not matter because the Bharathiar University academic community had already spent more than one-and-half years without a Vice-Chancellor.
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