AHMEDABAD: Gujarat govt has been going through accusations of appointing individuals who don't have ok teaching qualifications on key posts, including the vice-chancellor, in the state’s universities. Lately, the grievance has change into more critical with as many as three appointments of VCs of government universities being challenged sooner than Gujarat high court docket.
The flooring on which the federal government has been targeted is that the academicians appointed at the key posts don't meet the criteria laid down by means of the University Grants Commission (UGC) — Minimum Qualifications for Appointment of Teachers and Other Academic Staff in Universities and Colleges and different Measures for the Maintenance of Standards in Higher Education Regulations, 2010.
UGC regulations stipulates that the person appointed because the VC will have to have a minimum of 10 years of training revel in as a professor in the university, research centre or in an institute of high status. But eligibility is questioned in three appointments.
Appointments which might be beneath judicial scrutiny at this time are the vice-chancellors of the Sardar Patel University, Shirish Kulkarni; Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Shivendra Gupta; and Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University, Sailesh Zala. The issue involving Kulkarni and Zala are material of writ petitions filed by means of folks affiliated with the respective universities, whilst Gupta’s appointment has been questioned by means of a PIL filed by means of a Vadodara-based senior citizen Praful Desai. Petitioners claim that none of the three have 10 years’ teaching revel in as professor.
On the talk over qualification of folks occupying the highest put up of the absolute best schooling establishments, former VC of Gujarat University, A U Patel, mentioned, “Laws regulating Gujarat’s universities are required to be changed. The universities and the state govt have adopted UGC norms for appointment and promotion of training workforce at all levels, but they've no longer accredited the norms for appointment of vice-chancellors. Can colleges appoint lecturers with less than 55% marks of their masters? You cannot be selective in accepting UGC norms. They will have to be carried out to all positions.”
The petitioners sooner than the HC are contending that the UGC regulations issued in 2010 are binding for all universities, whether or not they are mandatory or listing in nature. In absence of any law backing VC’s appointment, the UGC regulations are required to be adopted, mentioned advocate Prithu Parimal, who represents two petitioners sooner than the HC.
While the HC has sought reply from the federal government in cases of Gupta and Zala’s appointments, the court docket had for few months stayed Kulkarni from taking any administrative choice. After the HC got rid of its keep from Kulkarni’s functioning, the petitioner has moved a division bench.
Before the HC, it has additionally been contended that the governor had in 2014 directed the state govt “to take appropriate action in view of the UGC recommending the chancellor that UGC regulations be adopted strictly with appreciate to appointment of vice-chancellors in the state of Gujarat”.
Gujarat Congress’s spokesperson Manish Doshi mentioned, “The govt has been violating the UGC norms. It gifts the posts to people who have long term association with the ABVP and different right-wing bodies. It is unlucky that the federal government compromises on quality on the absolute best degree to please their favourites. The govt must search their resignation so as to come clean.”
Education minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama was no longer to be had for his remark at the issue.
The flooring on which the federal government has been targeted is that the academicians appointed at the key posts don't meet the criteria laid down by means of the University Grants Commission (UGC) — Minimum Qualifications for Appointment of Teachers and Other Academic Staff in Universities and Colleges and different Measures for the Maintenance of Standards in Higher Education Regulations, 2010.
UGC regulations stipulates that the person appointed because the VC will have to have a minimum of 10 years of training revel in as a professor in the university, research centre or in an institute of high status. But eligibility is questioned in three appointments.
Appointments which might be beneath judicial scrutiny at this time are the vice-chancellors of the Sardar Patel University, Shirish Kulkarni; Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Shivendra Gupta; and Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University, Sailesh Zala. The issue involving Kulkarni and Zala are material of writ petitions filed by means of folks affiliated with the respective universities, whilst Gupta’s appointment has been questioned by means of a PIL filed by means of a Vadodara-based senior citizen Praful Desai. Petitioners claim that none of the three have 10 years’ teaching revel in as professor.
On the talk over qualification of folks occupying the highest put up of the absolute best schooling establishments, former VC of Gujarat University, A U Patel, mentioned, “Laws regulating Gujarat’s universities are required to be changed. The universities and the state govt have adopted UGC norms for appointment and promotion of training workforce at all levels, but they've no longer accredited the norms for appointment of vice-chancellors. Can colleges appoint lecturers with less than 55% marks of their masters? You cannot be selective in accepting UGC norms. They will have to be carried out to all positions.”
The petitioners sooner than the HC are contending that the UGC regulations issued in 2010 are binding for all universities, whether or not they are mandatory or listing in nature. In absence of any law backing VC’s appointment, the UGC regulations are required to be adopted, mentioned advocate Prithu Parimal, who represents two petitioners sooner than the HC.
While the HC has sought reply from the federal government in cases of Gupta and Zala’s appointments, the court docket had for few months stayed Kulkarni from taking any administrative choice. After the HC got rid of its keep from Kulkarni’s functioning, the petitioner has moved a division bench.
Before the HC, it has additionally been contended that the governor had in 2014 directed the state govt “to take appropriate action in view of the UGC recommending the chancellor that UGC regulations be adopted strictly with appreciate to appointment of vice-chancellors in the state of Gujarat”.
Gujarat Congress’s spokesperson Manish Doshi mentioned, “The govt has been violating the UGC norms. It gifts the posts to people who have long term association with the ABVP and different right-wing bodies. It is unlucky that the federal government compromises on quality on the absolute best degree to please their favourites. The govt must search their resignation so as to come clean.”
Education minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama was no longer to be had for his remark at the issue.
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