JNU Teachers Association urge Education Ministry to appoint full-time VC

At present, M Jagadesh Kumar is holding the charge as acting VC. He has been the Vice-Chancellor since 2016. He will continue to be the acting VC till the Ministry of Education appoints his successor. 

The JNU Teachers Association (JNUTA) has questioned the delay in the appointment of the new Vice-Chancellor of the University even when the tenure of the previous head was completed a year back. “In the university system, the position of the Vice-Chancellor is an important one. Yet it has been over a year now that JNU, one of the premier universities of the country, has been functioning without a full-time Vice-Chancellor. Several other Central Universities that had a similar vacancy have had new appointees. What then explains the delay in the case of JNU?,” the association said in a statement.

At present, M Jagadesh Kumar is holding the charge as acting VC. He has been the Vice-Chancellor since 2016. He will continue to be the acting VC till the Ministry of Education appoints his successor.  “Directives issued by the Ministry of Education and provisions of JNU’s own statutes explicitly forbid Vice Chancellors whose tenures are formally over from taking decisions on policy matters of a substantive nature. Yet, important decisions related to policy matters are being pushed through by the caretaker Vice Chancellor, without any discussion, that have far reaching consequences for JNU in the longer run,” the teachers association alleged.

“On the teaching front, while the university moved to online teaching during the Pandemic – despite several requests there was no financial help provided to faculty for purchase of teaching aids by the university. No institutional subscription was provided to faculty for any online platform wherein bigger classes could be easily accomodated. No steps were taken by him to personally ensure that faculty were duly rewarded with additional Earned Leave for working without any break over the past two years,” it further said. 

There was no immediate reaction from Kumar on the issues raised by JNUTA.

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