The Hindu: Hubballi: Thursday, December 21, 2017.
The Save
Karnatak University Committee has urged Governor Vajubhai Vala to direct the
vice-chancellor to withdraw the order of declaration of probationary of the
teaching staff appointed by the then Vice-Chancellor H.B. Walikar.
In a letter
to the Governor, committee chairman and former Syndicate member Jayanth K.S.
has said that 16 professors, 13 associate professors and 57 assistant
professors were appointed during the tenure of Mr. Walikar.
The
university declared seven professors, seven associate professors, and 38
assistant professors as probationary at the Syndicate meeting on October 4,
2017.
The
appointments made during Mr. Walikar’s tenure came under the scanner of the
authorities concerned for alleged irregularities. Later, an inquiry committee
appointed by the Governor too showed illegalities in these appointments. A
Special Leave Petition against Mr. Walikar is pending before the Supreme Court.
This being the case, regularising such appointments is totally against the law,
he said.
Further, the
declaration of probationary too was made in violation of the norms. Many of
these appointments were subject to certain conditions and one of them was that
the candidates appointed to the post of the professor are required to produce
at least one Ph.D candidates under their guidance within three years from the
date of joining the university.
However,
information procured under RTI in the case of one professor of the Department
of English, who was appointed in 2013, showed that this particular candidate
had not guided any Ph.D. candidate during the last four years. But her
probationary has been declared by the Syndicate.
There are
other cases of similar nature, Mr. Jayanth said and urged the Governor to
withdraw the orders declaring all teaching staff appointed by Mr. Walikar as
probationary and strike down the decisions of the Syndicate taken on October 4,
2017.
A detailed
inquiry may also be initiated, Mr. Jayanth said.
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