Armed with SC directive, KTU VC convenes Syndicate meet on Sep 2

Court is presently hearing VC's plea against absence of govt representatives in apex body

- SOVI VIDYADHARAN @T'Puram

IN A fresh bid to resolve the administrative stalemate in APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University (KTU), Vice Chancellor K Sivaprasad has issued directions to convene a meeting of the varsity Syndicate on September 2. The meeting will discuss important academic and administrative matters and will also take up the varsity's budget for the current fiscal.

According to university sources, a meeting of the statutory finance committee will also be held, prior to the Syndicate meeting, on September 1. The secretaries of higher education and finance departments are members of the committee.

The Vice Chancellor's move to convene the Syndicate meeting was on the directions of the Supreme Court that is presently hearing a petition filed by him against the continued absence of government representatives in the varsity's apex body. Owing to the non-attendance of the government secretaries, syndicate meetings had to be called off due to lack of quorum.