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Supreme Court okays Vice Chancellors appointment
The Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice T S Thakur on Monday gave a green signal to the appointment of Vice Chancellors by the Telangana government while stating that the Governor would continue to be the Chancellor of all universities.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice T S Thakur on Monday gave a green signal to the appointment of Vice Chancellors by the Telangana government while stating that the Governor would continue to be the Chancellor of all universities.
Senior counsel Mukul Rohatgi, on behalf of the state government, earlier argued that the state had every right to go ahead with the appointments as it was following the UGC guidelines of 2010 which were in vogue in the combined state of Andhra Pradesh.
The state government had not deviated from any of the rules in doing so now, he said. He pointed out that even in case of Madurai University in Tamil Nadu, the SC had given a go head. Hence, the Telangana government committed no wrong in relaxing the rules as per the provisions of the appointment of the VCs, he said.
It may be recalled that the Telangana government had approached the Supreme Court on the High Court verdict scrapping the appointment of Vice Chancellors to various universities. The Telangana government had appointed seven VCs to regular universities and one for the Agriculture university on July 25.
The following day, the High Court ordered cancellation of the appointments. The state government's argument was that there were clear cut instructions from the Union government that states could adopt the Universities Grant Commission (UGC) rules as per their requirements.
In this case, the government felt the need to relax the minimum experience of working as Professor to five years as against the existing 10 years and a corresponding decision was taken.
In its argument in the High Court too, the state government had argued that its intention was to tap a larger pool of eminent educationists and administrators to improve the functioning of universities. Under Section 101 of the AP Reorganisaton Act-2014, the state government was empowered to make any number of adoptions and modifications within two years from the appointed day (June 2), it contended.
