During the last couple of months the state has witnessed contraction between the highest constitutional academic authority of the state and the government. When the verbal jibes between the HRD minister Mr. P.K.Shahi and the RajBhawan heightened, CM Nitish Kumar took the intiative and called on the Governor. The meeting runs for more than three hours between the head of ministers and the head of government and it seemed that a truce would be reached.
Honoring the Chief Minister’s requests, Hon’ble governor Devanand Konwar on Monday appointed new full-fledged vice-chancellors for six universities of Bihar. With this, six universities of Bihar got new full-fledged vice-chancellors while Magadh and Veer Kuer Singh University have to run with pro-VCs for time being.But as RajBhawan did this without any consultation with the state government, it attracts criticism by different quarters of govt. including HRD ministry. Moreover, none of the name from the government panel found place as the finalist.
But as Chancellor being the Governor is to insulate the Universities from unnecessary governmental interference and safeguard their autonomy, it is not healthy to flack him. At least the government quarters should not criticize the step as it is in the favor of future of thousands of students of the state and help reforming the system and streamlining the academic atmosphere prevailing in different institutions of higher education.
While the CM himself shows reverence and nicety to the RajBhawan others are supposed to be silent on critical issues. There is no need to heat the broth irrationally.
Honoring the Chief Minister’s requests, Hon’ble governor Devanand Konwar on Monday appointed new full-fledged vice-chancellors for six universities of Bihar. With this, six universities of Bihar got new full-fledged vice-chancellors while Magadh and Veer Kuer Singh University have to run with pro-VCs for time being.But as RajBhawan did this without any consultation with the state government, it attracts criticism by different quarters of govt. including HRD ministry. Moreover, none of the name from the government panel found place as the finalist.
But as Chancellor being the Governor is to insulate the Universities from unnecessary governmental interference and safeguard their autonomy, it is not healthy to flack him. At least the government quarters should not criticize the step as it is in the favor of future of thousands of students of the state and help reforming the system and streamlining the academic atmosphere prevailing in different institutions of higher education.
While the CM himself shows reverence and nicety to the RajBhawan others are supposed to be silent on critical issues. There is no need to heat the broth irrationally.
