Education Ministry Sits for Months on List of Vice-Chancellor Picks, RTI Reply Shows
Basant Kumar Mohanty | 22 October 2024 | The Telegraph
The office of education minister Dharmendra Pradhan has, for the past four months, been sitting on recommendations made by panels for the vice-chancellor's post at Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, and the Central University of Kerala, data accessed under the RTI Act shows.
Eight universities — the Visva-Bharati, the Central University of Kerala, the Pondicherry University, the English and Foreign Language University, the Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, the Rajiv Gandhi University, the Mahatma Gandhi Antararashtriya Hindi Vishvavidyalaya and the Jamia Millia Islamia — lack regular VCs….