SHILLONG: The North-Eastern Hill University Teachers’ Association (NEHUTA) and North-Eastern Hill University Non-Teaching Staff Association (NEHUNSA) have urged the Centre to take immediate steps to appoint a regular Vice-Chancellor of NEHU.
In letters addressed to the President of India, who is also the Visitor of NEHU, the Prime Minister and the Union Minister for Human Resource Development, the two associations said that the University has been running without a regular Vice-Chancellor for the last 16 months.
After Prof. A. N. Rai, the then Vice-Chancellor, left NEHU in June, 2013, Prof. P. Shukla, the senior most professor is working as acting Vice-Chancellor, the NEHU associations reminded.
According to the teachers, in the absence of the most important statutory officers – Vice-Chancellor, Registrar and Finance Officer in NEHU – day-to-day functioning of the University has been seriously hampered.
“It appears that the MHRD, Government of India, has failed to take cognizance of our problems by delaying the appointment of a regular Vice-Chancellor,” the teachers’ body said, urging the Centre to take immediate steps to appoint a regular Vice-Chancellor.
In a separate letter addressed to the Union Human Resource Development Minister, the Joint Action Committee of NEHU said that not only NEHU but 12 Central Universities in the country do not have regular Vice-Chancellors.
Further, three IIMs and ten IITs are also running without the institute heads, they added.
