Bihar Governor orders State authorities to remain out of affairs of universities

Raj Bhawan on Thursday issued an instruction to the training division and the Bihar Government to not take any choice or settle for any orders besides these from the Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar and Raj Bhawan within the matter of working the affairs of the Universities within the state.

The instruction, issued on August 31 by Principal Secretary to Governor Robert L Chongthu, stated that “certain officials are attempting to create confusion illegally and recalcitrantly and are undermining the established autonomy of the university administration as well as the clearly laid down and unambiguous power and authority of the office of Chancellor in the matter of running the affairs of universities.”

It instructed Vice Chancellors of all Universities in Bihar to not comply with any orders besides these from the Governor.

“In order to clarify the matter authoritatively, the Chancellor, in exercise of powers conferred on him under Section 9 Sub-Section (7) (ii) and (8) of the Bihar State University Act 1976, considers it necessary to issue direction to the Universities and, accordingly, to order that henceforth all Vice-Chancellors and other statutory officials and authorities of the Universities are required to comply with and carry out faithfully the orders and directions of, and to seek guidelines and clarification from, the Secretariat office of the Chancellor alone in the domains of administrative and academic affairs and interests of the Universities,” it learn.

It goes on to say that they’re in no place to really feel obliged to heed on this regard any orders or directives issued with out authority and jurisdiction over the statutorily ordained college affairs by any particular person in derogation to the clearly outlined autonomy of the colleges.

However, this isn’t the primary time that Raj Bhawan has issued such an order, as related directions had been issued in 2009 to all Vice Chancellors of Bihar by Raj Bhawan when the late Devanand Konwar was the Governor of Bihar.

The improvement got here after Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar final month reversed an order of the Bihar Education Department to freeze the financial institution accounts of two officers at Muzaffarpur’s Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Bihar University.

The Education Department of Bihar had instructed the varsity to cease paying the salaries of the college vice chancellor and pro-vice chancellor for his or her alleged failure to examine an establishment of their jurisdiction and for not attending a overview assembly held by it.

Also, the Education Department of Bihar introduced that they’re accepting functions for the positions of VCs at 5 universities in Bihar. However, just a few days after the announcement, the division withdrew the notification.

Last month, the Bihar Chief Minister additionally visited Raj Bhavan to fulfill the Governor. Meanwhile, the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) has been demanding the removing of KK Pathak, Additional Chief Secretary of the Education Department. 

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