GJU awaits full time vice-chancellor, registrar
Teachers with doctorates are supposed to get regular increments. However, it is only in the GJU where increments have been stopped as we don’t have a permanent V-C or registrar.
ANIL BHANKHAR, professor
HISAR: Haryana’s only technical university Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology (GJU) is working without a vice-chancellor (V-C) and a registrar. The university is operating with a makeshift V-C since May 2014 and its registrar’s post is vacant since January.
It was last year in May when the university V-C ML Ranga, who in pursuit of making his political career, resigned from the post. Since then the university is working without a V-C.
A makeshift arrangement was made in the form of Radha Sham Sharma, who is V-C of Chaduhary Devi Lal University in Sirsa.
The university employees have accused Sharma of showing least interest for the progress of GJU. “He (Sharma) stops here only while going to Delhi,” said president of Guru Jambheshwar University Teachers Association (GJUTA) Anil Bhankhar. There have been instances in the past when the “V-C gone missing” posters surfaced on the university campus.
The association leader said they had written to the governor chief minister and the ministry in Delhi, but no one seemed interested. The university executive council also formed a threemember V-C search committee in February.
According to the union leader, earlier the committee used to nominate one from governor and two from outside the university and those names were made public.
“However, this time no names were disclosed. No one knows who was in the committee,” Bhankhar said, adding that despite having two meetings, the search committee had failed.
Even in February, the government published an advertisement for the V-C’s post and received 93 applications. Out of them, the search committee found 50 candidates eligible for the post.
“Despite having a list, the committee had failed to shortlist some names,” added the union leader. “Same is the case with the university registrar’s post. The last registrar finished his service in December last year. Since then the job was assigned to a senior professor MS Turhan,” he said.
The absence of key posts is affecting the students and teachers alike. “We don’t know when our V-C comes and when he goes! So our problems remain unattended. Whenever, we want to do some research work, we are advised that we have to wait for the V-C’s approval,” said a research scholar, requesting anonymity.
The teachers are also crying chaos in the university. “Teachers with doctorates are supposed to get regular increments. However, it is only in GJU where increments have been stopped as we don’t have a permanent V-C or registrar,” said professor Anil Bhankhar, who apart from being president of GJUTA also works in the department of Nano technology. When asked about the issue, the makeshift registrar MH Turhan said, “It is the government’s duty to appoint the V-C and the registrar. Therefore, I can’t comment on it.”