Appointment row: Govt order non-executable, says UoM registrar R Rajanna

Mysore | Thursday | 28th June, 2018

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They suspect the letter is to divert attention from the main issue.An officer of the state higher education department said that the principal secretary, state higher education department wrote a letter to the vice-chancellor and not the registrar. Hence, implementation of directions issued by principal secretary, higher education department as well as VC's office are non-executable.Rajanna pointed out that these staff members were appointed for 11 months and were temporary in nature. They were appointed when someone else was the registrar," he said.Meanwhile, sources in the state higher education department said the registrar as well as acting vice-chancellor have no powers to write any letter to the state government about it. As per the rule book, the university acting VC should have called a special meeting of the syndicate and placed the government order for discussion and the approval. "As per the state universities act, the vice-chancellor should have called a meeting of the syndicate immediately and placed the government letter for discussion..