7 months ago
2
COIMBATORE The latest determination taken by Bharathiar University connected three-year rotation of headship for departments is astatine variance with the varsity statutes, long-serving heads of 10 post-graduate departments who had been replaced, reasoned retired with the medication connected Saturday.
There are a full of 38 departments successful the university, and the rotation of headship has been planned successful consequent phases for the remainder of the departments, it is learnt.
According to Bharathiar University Registrar R. Rajavel, the determination connected rotation of headship of departments has been enforced successful keeping with a missive dated May 22, 2025, addressed to Registrars of universities by the Higher Education Department.
The applicable information successful minutes conception of the missive states: “The Secretary to Government instructed the Registrars to place those Heads of Departments successful universities who are serving arsenic HoDs successful the aforesaid section for much than 3 years and to furnish the database to the Government. He besides instructed the Registrars to name the module successful the station of HoD connected rotation ground for each 3 years.”
The affected elder module who person been serving arsenic Heads of Departments for agelong person made abstracted representations to the Registrar, the Higher Education Department and the Office of the Chancellor and Governor, opposing the determination by citing the assemblage Statute.
An effort made during 2013 by the assemblage to present rotation strategy for appointing heads of departments for three-year durations connected seniority ground could not beryllium pursued further arsenic an amendment had to beryllium made successful the statutes.
As per Section 45(3) of the Bharathiyar University Act, 1981, “a idiosyncratic appointed arsenic the Head of the Department shall clasp office, arsenic such, for a play of 3 years and shall beryllium eligible for re-appointment”.
In 2022, the Madras High Court restored headship to the Head of Physics Department K. Srinivasan connected this premise.
As per the presumption and conditions of work of heads of departments, successful the lawsuit of determination being much than 1 prof successful immoderate Department, the Head of the Department shall beryllium appointed successful the mode prescribed by Ordinance 2001, which emphasises connected seniority, arsenic per clause I of Section 45 of the Bharathiar University Act, 1981, which states that seniority shall beryllium followed successful the appointment.
The High Court had besides stated successful its bid that disregard of seniority would represent usurpation of the principles of earthy justice.
