Tamil Nadu governor RN Ravi has turned the domain of higher education in the state into a virtual turf war with the government of MK Stalin, leaving many state-run universities headless without a Vice-Chancellor.
Faculty members, officers, non-teaching staff, research scholars, and students gathered to welcome the newly appointed vice-chancellor.
The vice-chancellor of VisvaBharati University, professor Bidyut Chakraborty has sent a written complaint through email to Santiniketan police station
A single bench of Justice Devan Ramachandran in an interim order restricted the governor from taking a final decision on the show-cause notices served to the vice chancellors until the court decides on the petition filed by the vice-chancellors.
The court expressed its reservations regarding the Governor's communiqué issued on 23 October which asked the VCs to resign by 11.30 am on Monday.
Raj Bhavan sources said the Governor has initiated this extraordinary move as his repeated directions to hold a Senate meeting and provide a nominee of the senate to the search committee for selection of Vice-Chancellor went unheeded.
The absence of vice-chancellor in a state University for quite some time is not unprecedented anymore in West Bengal as the state has seen such situations several times in the recent past.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck are traveling to Canada on Sunday for energy talks.
Apart from the DU, Vice-Chancellors of JNU, Banaras Hindu University, Central University in Assam and Rajasthan, and both central Sanskrit universities, including the VCs of about a dozen universities, are to be appointed.
VCK MP, Dr Thol Thiruvamavalavan, in a statement on Thursday, said that a large number of people from outside the state were applying for the post, and claimed that such a situation has been caused by the Tamil Nadu Governor ignoring the recommendations made by the previous AIADMK government on Vice Chancellor's posts.
