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New Delhi: In a significant move, Kerala governor has approached the supreme court on Vice Chancellor appointments in the state informing the apex court that the Chief minister has no role in the VC appointments, but can intervene in the college functioning.
Governor’s remarks, made in a petition filed in the Supreme Court, seek to exclude the Chief Minister from the appointment process of Vice Chancellors.
The application seeks to implead the University Grants Commission (UGC) in the case. It requests that the Chief Minister be excluded from the VC selection process. The application also proposes that the Search Committee submit names directly to the Chancellor.
It demands inclusion of a UGC nominee in the Search Committee. The application also seek to remove the consent clause from the Supreme Court’s order dated.
He has approached the Supreme Court seeking an amendment to an earlier judgment that allowed the Chief minister’s involvement in the process.
In a ruling on Bengal, the court had earlier directed that the panel prepared by the search committee headed by former Chief justice UU Lalit be handed over to Chief minister Mamta Banerjee.
Similarly, the Supreme Court directed that the panel prepared by the search committee led by Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia for digital and technological universities should be handed over to the Chief minister. However the Digital and Technologies Act states that neither the Chief minister nor any ministers have any role in such appointments.
The Governor has therefore requested the court to remove the direction to hand over the panel to the Chief Minister, and instead, to submit it directly to him.
