Madras College V-C search panel: Governor tells TN govt to withdraw the notification

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi has declared the Tamil Nadu authorities’s notification concerning a three-member search panel for choosing a vice-chancellor of Madras College as void. He directed the state authorities to withdraw it. The notification, printed within the Tamil Nadu authorities gazette on September 13, had omitted the College Grants Fee (UGC) chairman’s nominee, which the governor had included within the committee.
Governor Ravi had introduced four-member V-C search committees for the College of Madras, Bharathiar College, and Tamil Nadu Instructor Schooling College on September 6. The College of Madras search panel had former vice-chancellor of Central College of South Bihar, H C S Rathore, because the UGC chairman’s nominee.
The state authorities’s notification acknowledged that Battu Satyanarayana, the vice-chancellor of C

entral College of Karnataka, could be the convener of the committee because the chancellor’s nominee. The committee additionally contains former IAS officer Okay Deenabandhu and former vice-chancellor of Bharathidasan College, P Jagadeesan, as members.
Whereas the state authorities reiterated its place that present Acts and college statutes don’t require a nominee from the UGC in search committees, Raj Bhavan insisted on a UGC nominee in V-C search committees, citing UGC laws and courtroom judgments.
“The Governor issued a notification on September 6, notifying the search-selection committee for figuring out candidates for the appointment of the V-C of the College, and the identical was printed on the Raj Bhavan’s web site. By an act of impropriety, the principal secretary to the federal government, greater training division, issued an extra notification of a search-cum-selection committee by excluding the nominee of the UGC chairman, and the identical was printed within the authorities gazette on September 13, with out adhering to the choice of the Supreme Courtroom and in violation of the identical,” Raj Bhavan mentioned in a launch.
“The mentioned notification printed on September 13 is void ab initio, being opposite to the UGC laws and the order of the Supreme Courtroom. The mentioned publication within the authorities gazette is with none such authority from the chancellor, being the pinnacle of the College, and the principal secretary to the federal government, greater training division, has no function within the affairs of the college. The Chancellor has referred to as upon to withdraw the notification printed within the Tamil Nadu authorities gazette extraordinary,” it added.