Governor Arif Mohammad Khan is ready with the list of senior professors who have minimum 10 years experience for appointment of Vice Chancellors.
Governor Arif Mohammad Khan is ready with the list of senior professors who have minimum 10 years experience for appointment of Vice Chancellors.
Governor Arif Mohammad Khan is ready with a list of senior professors who may be given the charge of vice-chancellors after the state universities decide to cancel the appointment of existing vice-chancellors.
The governor, who is the chancellor of state universities, has collected the names of senior professors who have a minimum of 10 years of experience as per the norms set by the University Grants Commission (UGC) for appointment of vice-chancellors.
According to people close to the development in the governor’s office, the list includes about 10 names from each university.
The nine vice-chancellors were asked to respond to the show-cause notices issued by Mr. Khan by 5 pm on November 3 as their appointment was “contrary to the UGC rules and thus bad/illegal in law and void from the outset”. “.
The notice was issued by the chancellor after the Supreme Court quashed the appointment of MS Rajshri as the vice-chancellor of the APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University, saying it was in violation of the UGC norms.
The scheduled deadline for the Vice Chancellors of Digital University Kerala and Sree Narayana Guru Open University is ending on November 4 at 5 PM. The Raj Bhavan had given additional charge of Kerala University to Mohanan Kunnumal, the Vice Chancellor of Kerala University of Health Sciences. VP Mahadevan Pillai’s term as Vice-Chancellor is coming to an end.
It is learned that the Governor may turn down the government’s recommendation to hand over the charge of the Technical University Vice-Chancellor to Ishita Roy, Principal Secretary, Higher Education Department as she already has additional charge of Kerala Agriculture. university.
After Dr. Rajshree stepped down, the government had recommended the name of Digital University Vice-Chancellor Saji Gopinath to take over the additional charge. However, the governor refused to accept it.
According to the governor’s office, he is likely to hand over the charge of the technical university’s vice-chancellor to a deserving person soon.