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Educators want Guv's consent to the Bill making the CM as chancellor

October 05, 2023

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The Educationists’ Forum, consisting of former vicechancellors of state universities and teachers held a media meet within the Jadavpur University campus on Tuesday stating that the Governor was deliberately delaying the formation of the search committee for finding VCs and indulging in illegal practices.

Educators want Guv's consent to the Bill making the CM as chancellor

The forum has shown how the Governor of the state, CV Ananda Bose, who is also the chancellor of the universities, is continuing to exercise his illegal actions in respect of the universities by authorizing/ removing/replacing his appointees in various universities even when the entire matter is now pending before the Supreme Court.

Since the Supreme Court had desired the inclusion of the UGC nominee in the search/selection committees, all the vice-chancellors selected under the prevalent law were requested to resign by the Chancellor and the government in January 2023. They said that in 2022,

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