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The assignment of a retired 1990-batch Indian Police Service serviceman arsenic the Vice-Chancellor (V-C) of India’s lone sports assemblage has raised hackles successful Manipur.
Daljit Singh Chaudhary, a erstwhile Director General of the Border Security Force and the Sashastra Seema Bal, was precocious appointed arsenic the V-C of the National Sports University (NSU) coming up astatine Koutruk successful Imphal West district.
Keisham Meghachandra Singh, the president of Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee, said the assignment was successful enactment with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-Bharatiya Janata Party argumentation of bulldozing world norms and the regularisation of law.
The Meetei (Meitei) Tribe Union, an Imphal Valley-based societal organisation, questioned the legality and transparency of the appointment, which was “made successful usurpation of recruitment rules and prescribed qualifications nether the NSU Act, 2018”.
Taking to societal media platforms connected Saturday (May 16, 2026), Mr. Singh said Mr. Chaudhary’s assignment “deeply shocked and disappointed academicians, applicants, researchers, and aspiring scholars crossed Manipur and the country”.
He said that the NSU was established with the imaginativeness and enactment of the Prime Minister arsenic a premier instauration of excellence successful sports education, sports science, carnal education, research, and world leadership. “Such an instauration of nationalist value deserves enactment selected strictly successful accordance with world merit, statutory norms, and recruitment rules — not done arbitrary governmental decisions,” helium wrote.
“Selection process ignored”
The State Congress main said that the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports initiated a agelong and rigorous enactment process done an authoritative advertisement issued successful December 2024. Eminent academicians and professionals from crossed the state applied and waited patiently for much than 2 years.
“Applicants prepared extended world records, probe credentials, publications, administrative experience, and organization imaginativeness documents earlier appearing earlier the Search-cum-Selection Committee successful New Delhi connected May 31, 2025, astatine the National Dope Testing Laboratory, JLN Stadium Complex. Out of 15 shortlisted candidates, 14 reportedly appeared for the interaction,” helium said.
“The advertisement intelligibly prescribed that the V-C should person an outstanding world grounds on with a minimum of 10 years’ acquisition arsenic a prof oregon successful an equivalent world administrative position. However, the assignment of a idiosyncratic whose sanction reportedly did not look successful the shortlist and whose qualifications bash not look to fulfill the prescribed world criteria has raised highly superior concerns regarding transparency, legality, and adherence to the recruitment rules,” Mr. Singh said.
He said that helium respected Mr. Chaudhury’s nationalist work and contributions to nationalist security, but “respect for administrative work cannot override statutory eligibility conditions meant for an world office”.
“Sets a unsafe precedent”
He said that the assignment sets a unsafe precedent successful which institutions of higher acquisition whitethorn gradually suffer their world quality owed to governmental interference.
On Saturday, Manipur Chief Minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh visited the NSU analyzable to measure the presumption of the ongoing infrastructure improvement work. He praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for fulfilling his imagination of establishing the country’s lone specified university.
The National Building Construction Corporation is handling the project. Officials of the corp told the Chief Minister that the caller field volition location 60 module residential units. The field is besides equipped with a multi-purpose sports hallway dispersed crossed the crushed and archetypal floors.
“The task is targeted to beryllium completed by the extremity of this year. The assemblage volition person an intake capableness of 1,300 students,” helium said.
