Maharashtra: Game of musical chairs over vice-chancellor post at Wardha university
Basant Kumar Mohanty | 9 April 2024 | The Telegraph
Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya (MGAHV) here is running without a vice-chancellor (VC) for the last one week after the Nagpur bench of Mumbai High Court removed the Union government-appointed candidate.
According to the statute of the university, if the post of the VC falls vacant, the pro-VC will take charge and in his absence, the senior-most professor will assume office. There is, however, no pro-VC in MGAHV, and the senior-most professor is Prof Lella Karunyakara, a Dalit scholar. However, the Visitor, the President of India, who is aided by the ministry of education (MoE), is yet to decide on whom to appoint next…