Chandigarh, March 23
After a series of amicable meetings, Saturday Syndicate is expected to be stormy, especially, for the Vice-Chancellor (VC) who seems to have run into trouble with the Chatrath Group over with the faculty change issue after their letter to VC, 11 senators of the GK Chatrath group have approached Chancellor Hamid Ansari accusing the Vice-Chancellor, RC Sobti, of disrupting the democratic set up of the PU Senate.
Accusing Sobti of actively participating in Senate politics by intentionally helping a particular group, the senators, in their letter, have claimed that the permission to change faculty is against all the norms and that of PU calendar.
“The VC has no authority to grant any such permissions and the unlawful act is aimed to help handful of people in forthcoming Senate elections. How can we justify people changing their faculties after four years in house and selecting syndicate? It has never happened before and arbitrary attitude of RC Sobti is disrupting democratic set up of academic bodies,” reads the letter, which seeks immediate intervention of Chancellor.
In addition to the issue of the university giving two hoots to propriety and going ahead with recruitments despite search committee being framed for the new VC will also rock the house. While the VC claims to be continuing with recruitment as per directives of last syndicate a majority of syndicate members refuse to take it.
“He should have done only urgent and need based appointments but going by the current trend it appears that we are trying to adjust as many people as we can before change of power which is unethical. Not only the VC search panel has been declared but also the Senate election has been scheduled, so any fresh appointment is against propriety. We can understand one or two appointments but hundreds of screenings is unacceptable,” said a syndic.
Interestingly, the skeletons will also tumble out of cupboards with syndics ready to take up the issue of deteriorating condition of the HSJ Dental College. In its latest letter, Dental Council of India has threatened to disaffiliate the PU’s BDS course in a view of ailing infrastructure and staff crunch. Interestingly, the PU had recently bypassed syndicate and senate and proposed to the council allowing it to start the MDS; the council however, felt that organisation is not fit to even have the BDS course.
“We granted them recognition when former Director Dr Guaba was in his exit mode. They proposed to have the MDS but our visits to the college have revealed that they are currently not even fit to have the BDS course. The number of the OPD patients has dropped from 400 to 70 patients everyday. There are no proper equipments and skilled teachers even the current head is not from the subject. We have given the PU three months time to work out the things failing which we will have to disaffiliate its course,” said a member of the Dental Council of India.
After a series of amicable meetings, Saturday Syndicate is expected to be stormy, especially, for the Vice-Chancellor (VC) who seems to have run into trouble with the Chatrath Group over with the faculty change issue after their letter to VC, 11 senators of the GK Chatrath group have approached Chancellor Hamid Ansari accusing the Vice-Chancellor, RC Sobti, of disrupting the democratic set up of the PU Senate.
Accusing Sobti of actively participating in Senate politics by intentionally helping a particular group, the senators, in their letter, have claimed that the permission to change faculty is against all the norms and that of PU calendar.
“The VC has no authority to grant any such permissions and the unlawful act is aimed to help handful of people in forthcoming Senate elections. How can we justify people changing their faculties after four years in house and selecting syndicate? It has never happened before and arbitrary attitude of RC Sobti is disrupting democratic set up of academic bodies,” reads the letter, which seeks immediate intervention of Chancellor.
In addition to the issue of the university giving two hoots to propriety and going ahead with recruitments despite search committee being framed for the new VC will also rock the house. While the VC claims to be continuing with recruitment as per directives of last syndicate a majority of syndicate members refuse to take it.
“He should have done only urgent and need based appointments but going by the current trend it appears that we are trying to adjust as many people as we can before change of power which is unethical. Not only the VC search panel has been declared but also the Senate election has been scheduled, so any fresh appointment is against propriety. We can understand one or two appointments but hundreds of screenings is unacceptable,” said a syndic.
Interestingly, the skeletons will also tumble out of cupboards with syndics ready to take up the issue of deteriorating condition of the HSJ Dental College. In its latest letter, Dental Council of India has threatened to disaffiliate the PU’s BDS course in a view of ailing infrastructure and staff crunch. Interestingly, the PU had recently bypassed syndicate and senate and proposed to the council allowing it to start the MDS; the council however, felt that organisation is not fit to even have the BDS course.
“We granted them recognition when former Director Dr Guaba was in his exit mode. They proposed to have the MDS but our visits to the college have revealed that they are currently not even fit to have the BDS course. The number of the OPD patients has dropped from 400 to 70 patients everyday. There are no proper equipments and skilled teachers even the current head is not from the subject. We have given the PU three months time to work out the things failing which we will have to disaffiliate its course,” said a member of the Dental Council of India.
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