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The process of enactment of a caller Vice-Chancellor (V-C) for the University of Calicut is apt to beryllium delayed further arsenic disorder prevails implicit the presumption of the search-cum-selection committee acceptable up by the Chancellor for the purpose.
As per rules, the committee should person the nominees of the Chancellor, the university’s senate, and the University Grants Commission (UGC). The legislature has truthful acold nominated Dharmaraj Adat, erstwhile V-C, Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kaladi, and A. Sabu, subordinate secretary, Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment, to the post, but some person declined to instrumentality up the job. Though Governor and Chancellor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar besides acceptable up the search-cum-selection committee soon aft Mr. Sabu’s information and invited applications for the station of V-C, the State authorities challenged the process done a writ petition successful the Kerala High Court.
In its bid connected November 26, the tribunal has asked the legislature to prime its nominee wrong 30 days. However, azygous justice V.G. Arun besides said that the process of enactment of the V-C’s station “cannot commence” without the search-cum-selection committee “being successful place”. Since applications for the station had been invited, their receipt cannot beryllium stopped, but they would beryllium made taxable to the “outcome of the writ petition”.
“It is made wide that the enactment process shall commence lone aft the search-cum-selection committee is duly constituted,” the bid said. The tribunal besides said that “as the members elected to the search-cum-selection committee earlier were unwilling to beryllium successful the committee, it volition beryllium due to get the consent of the elected member, earlier forwarding the determination of the Senate to the Chancellor for approval.” The lawsuit has been posted to January 5, 2026.
Now, it is learnt that the legislature is apt to conscionable lone aft the section assemblage polls scheduled for December 9 and 11. Even if the legislature chooses different person, chances are that he/she whitethorn besides crook down the nomination. Since the search-cum-selection committee cannot commencement functioning without the legislature nominee, the process whitethorn beryllium delayed again.
Meanwhile, academics aligned with the United Democratic Front allege that this is simply a strategy by the ruling CPI(M) to deliberately prolong the process till they scope a statement with the Chancellor implicit the V-C’s post. They assertion that the effort volition beryllium to find idiosyncratic who is acceptable to some the CPI(M) and the Chancellor.
Mr. Arlekar had earlier nominated Elavuthingal D. Jemmis, National Science Chair professor, Department of lnorganic and Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, arsenic his nominee and Ravindra D. Kulkarni, V-C, University of Mumbai, arsenic the UGC’s nominee. Later, Mr. Jemmis was replaced with G.U. Kulkarni, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengaluru, erstwhile reports emerged that helium was portion of the governing assemblage of an aided assemblage affiliated to the university.
