Don't want to continue as JU V-C: Suranjan

  • | Sunday | 15th July, 2018

KOLKATA: Suranjan Das on Saturday expressed to Bengal governor Keshari Nath Tripathi his reluctance to continue as the Jadavpur University vice-chancellor. Das, who had been saying the EC decision was binding on him till the other day, expressed his reservations about the last decision. He was not keeping well and was unable to handle the pressure, Das told Tripathi during a visit to Raj Bhavan. The chancellor, however, insisted that Das should continue in the post.JU pro-VC P K Ghosh also accompanied Das to Raj Bhavan. He went to Tripathi and sought his advice and called a council meeting on July 10 to note the chancellor's observations.

KOLKATA: Suranjan Das on Saturday expressed to Bengal governor Keshari Nath Tripathi his reluctance to continue as the Jadavpur University vice-chancellor. He was not keeping well and was unable to handle the pressure, Das told Tripathi during a visit to Raj Bhavan. The chancellor, however, insisted that Das should continue in the post.JU pro-VC P K Ghosh also accompanied Das to Raj Bhavan. In a press communication, the governor's press secratary Manab Bandyopadhyay said Tripathi asked Das to take care of his health first and perform duties according to medical advice.The JU VC had made a similar plea to education minister Partha Chatterjee when he called on him at his Naktala home during the recent students' agitation over admissions. Chatterjee also reportedly dissuaded him from stepping down from the VC's post.According to university sources, Das couldn't accept take the JU executive council's decision to revert to the earlier plan of giving 50-50 weightage to Plus-II marks and admission tests for six Arts departments, days after it was decided that students would be admitted, based on their boards marks. Das, in his report to the chancellor, on Saturday held that he acted on university lawyer's opinion and couldn't be party to the final decision.Das was also reportedly upset with the way a section of students and teachers at JU kept pressuring him to amend the July 4 executive council resolution of admitting students based on boards marks. He went to Tripathi and sought his advice and called a council meeting on July 10 to note the chancellor's observations. But the heads of departments from arts and engineering, who are members of the EC, wanted him to call another meeting that day, citing the deteriorating health of the students on hunger strike.Das could hardly anticipate that some of the members who had endorsed the marks-based admission decision at the July 4 EC meeting would take a stand against it and press for 50:50 weightage to admission tests and Plus-II marks. Das, who had been saying the EC decision was binding on him till the other day, expressed his reservations about the last decision.

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