Why the delay in appointment of permanent VC, asks JNUTA
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
26.01.2022
New Delhi: With M Jagadesh Kumar completing a year as Jawaharlal Nehru University’s acting vice-chancellor, JNU Teachers’ Association (JNUTA) on Tuesday raised several questions to the education ministry over the non-appointment of a permanent VC despite it being over a year.
The teachers’ body claimed that significant policy decisions were being pushed through by Kumar and that they would have far-reaching consequences for the varsity.
“Directives issued by the Ministry of Education and provisions of JNU’s own statutes explicitly forbid vice-chancellors whose tenures are formally over from taking decisions on policy matters of a substantive nature. Several other central universities that had a similar vacancy have had new ap-pointees. What then explains the delay in the case of JNU?” it asked.
In a statement, JNUTA also said that “financial bottlenecks due to administrative incompetence have meant that regular academic and outreach programmes have suffered and that several faculty members have had to face cutbacks in research support. ”
“Regarding filling of teaching posts, particularly the reserved positions, there have been inordinate delays due to wilful misrepresentation of the roster system by the vice-chancellor, to rectify (for) which faculty members had to move court. While the new roster still has many limitations that have been pointed out by the petitioners, the administration has made no attempts to rectify these anomalies,” JNUTA said.
Claiming that the functioning of the university over the past year was “less than satisfactory,” the teachers’ body asked, “Can a caretaker VC be allowed to run the university as per his own personal whims and fancies? Can the ministry afford to remain silent in such a situation. . . ? and how soon will the ministry announce a full-time VC for JNU?”
Senior officials of the university administration could not be reached for a comment.
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