HC quashes AU’s new promotion rules
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:28.09.2021
New conditions brought in by Anna University for promotion of serving associate professors and assistant professors have been rejected by the Madras high court, which said rules of the game cannot be changed after selection is over.
Concurring with the submissions of senior counsel Isaac Mohanlal and quashing the new condition that an associate professor must have guided a PhD candidate to be eligible for promotion, Justice V Parthiban directed the university to give promotion in such cases as per existing rules.
The issue pertains to a batch of pleas moved by assistant and associate professors of the university challenging the resolutions of the university syndicate dated September 3, 2018 and November 9, 2018 bringing in the new conditions for promotion. The issues that are thrown upon for adjudication was whether or not the university is entitled to prescribe additional qualifications through the resolutions when, admittedly, the selection process was over in respect of these petitioners, much before the date of resolution.
Disposing of the pleas, the court said: “This court is of the considered view that the additional qualifications (eligibility criteria) introduced under the impugned resolutions dated September 3, 2018 and November 9, 2018 cannot be made applicable to writ petitioners.” Therefore, the syndicate resolutions are set aside only insofar as it is made applicable retrospectively to writ petitioners in respect of the selection for promotion, the court said.
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