By Express News Service
BHUBANESWAR: Withdrawal of Governor and Chancellor Ganeshi Lal’s directive for regulation of self-financing programs (SFCs) in public universities of the State has come as an enormous embarrassment for the federal government due to its political fallout in addition to lack of coordination within the decision-making course of.
The indisputable fact that the identical officer, Saswat Mishra, is Principal Secretary to the Governor and Chancellor and likewise the Secretary of the Higher Education (HE) division has made the state of affairs all of the extra curious. Mishra because the Principal Secretary to the Governor issued the directive to the schools to take corrective measures for regulation of SFCs by capping the variety of seats at 20 per cent on April 12. Four days afterward April 16, the Higher Education division knowledgeable all of the 13 public universities in regards to the resolution of the Chancellor and appointed 13 officers for streamlining SFCs.
But solely two days later, the choice was withdrawn by the division. This is a case of Mishra proposing from one seat after which Mishra rejecting it from one other seat because the HE division can also be straight underneath him. Though the withdrawal letter was issued by a further secretary, it couldn’t have been performed with out Secretary Mishra’s data.
Further questions are additionally raised because the Governor is the Chancellor of the schools whereas Higher Education division is barely an administrative division regarding finance and different issues of the establishments.
Neither the HE Minister Arun Sahoo nor Mishra have been out there for touch upon this. Sources stated that the minister was not consulted when the directive for streamlining of SFCs was issued by the Chancellor’s Principal Secretary. And that was the explanation behind the extra secretary of the division signing the letter for withdrawal of the order.
Sources additionally stated that the difficulty concerned enterprise pursuits reducing throughout occasion traces. Several leaders of the ruling BJD, in addition to the BJP, have curiosity within the SFCs run by the schools and don’t need capping of the seats. The Minister was not in favour of regulation of the SFCs from the start and needed to announce its withdrawal resulting from stress, they added.
