Patna: Governor-cum-chancellor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar on Thursday once again asked the vice-chancellors (VCs) and other officials of the universities not to attend the meeting convened by the state education department on Friday. He himself has convened yet another meeting of the VCs at Raj Bhavan on March 20.
In a letter addressed to the VCs and registrars of all the universities, governor’s principal secretary Robert L Chongthu wrote that after thorough consideration, the chancellor has not granted permission to the university officials to attend the meeting convened by the education department.Through another notification issued by Raj Bhavan on Thursday, the VCs have been directed to attend a meeting on March 20 to discuss academic and other issues.
The Raj Bhavan meeting will discuss, among other things, the subjects in which no faculty is available, details of universities’ bank accounts, audit status, university management information system, IT cell and payment of retiral benefits to the staff. The VCs have been asked to submit detailed report to the chancellor’s secretariat on all these aspects latest by March 18.
In fact, earlier also, the chancellor had not allowed the VCs and other officials to attend the education department’s meeting on March 9.
However, on March 8, deputy chief minister Samrat Choudhary and education minister Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, along with education department additional chief secretary K K Pathak, discussed the problems confronting the state’s higher education and tried to resolve the crisis amicably. Consequently, the education department postponed its March 9 meeting to March 15.
Three days ago, the governor’s secretary had also asked the education department about the withdrawal of its earlier order to freeze the universities’ bank accounts, stop payment of the VCs’ salaries and lodge FIRs against the staff.
Recently, the VCs of B R A Bihar University and Purnea University, and registrars of Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University and Kameshwar Singh Darbhanga Sanskrit University had written to the chancellor’s secretariat, seeking permission to attend the March 15 meeting. The chancellor, however, asked them not to attend the meeting.
In a letter addressed to the VCs and registrars of all the universities, governor’s principal secretary Robert L Chongthu wrote that after thorough consideration, the chancellor has not granted permission to the university officials to attend the meeting convened by the education department.Through another notification issued by Raj Bhavan on Thursday, the VCs have been directed to attend a meeting on March 20 to discuss academic and other issues.
The Raj Bhavan meeting will discuss, among other things, the subjects in which no faculty is available, details of universities’ bank accounts, audit status, university management information system, IT cell and payment of retiral benefits to the staff. The VCs have been asked to submit detailed report to the chancellor’s secretariat on all these aspects latest by March 18.
In fact, earlier also, the chancellor had not allowed the VCs and other officials to attend the education department’s meeting on March 9.
However, on March 8, deputy chief minister Samrat Choudhary and education minister Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, along with education department additional chief secretary K K Pathak, discussed the problems confronting the state’s higher education and tried to resolve the crisis amicably. Consequently, the education department postponed its March 9 meeting to March 15.
Three days ago, the governor’s secretary had also asked the education department about the withdrawal of its earlier order to freeze the universities’ bank accounts, stop payment of the VCs’ salaries and lodge FIRs against the staff.
Recently, the VCs of B R A Bihar University and Purnea University, and registrars of Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University and Kameshwar Singh Darbhanga Sanskrit University had written to the chancellor’s secretariat, seeking permission to attend the March 15 meeting. The chancellor, however, asked them not to attend the meeting.
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