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'Will step in if no consensus on appointing VCs'
The Morning Standard
|December 06, 2025
THE Supreme Court on Friday in its order indicated that it would intervene in resolving the ongoing impasse over the selection of vice chancellors for two technical universities -APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University and the University of Digital Sciences, Innovation and Technologyin Kerala if State Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Governor-cum-Chancellor Rajendra Arlekar do not reach a consensus.
Amidst the ongoing tussle between the Kerala government and state Governor Arlekar, the latter had on September 2 this year moved the Supreme Court seeking the exclusion of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan from the selection process of vice chancellors for these two universities: APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University and the Kerala Digital University.
This story is from the December 06, 2025 edition of The Morning Standard.
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