SHILLONG, July 8: Teachers’ associations of NEHU, viz. North Eastern Hill University Teachers’ Association (NEHUTA) and Meghalaya Tribal Teachers’ Association (MeTTA-NEHU), have flagged concerns over the “inordinate and inexplicable” delay in appointment of a suitable selected candidate as new Vice Chancellor (VC) of the varsity.
Maintaining that the search-cum-selection committee for appointment of new VC has completed its task, the associations, in a statement, said that the file stuck at some administrative level.
“In the absence of a new VC, the progress of the university is practically stalled as NEHU suffers from serious administrative, academic and financial lapses over last five years that brought down the status and the rank of the University. Given such an unwarranted slide of NEHU, the earliest central university for the Northeastern region, the cause of higher education and specialised and professional training of talents from the region and the state of Meghalaya is stunted,” they said in the statement.
The associations requested the Union government to expedite the appointment process. “…kindly consider the case of a tribal woman professor, who figures in the consideration of search cum-selection-committee, so that NEHU gets a VC who can not only lead but can bring in a healing effect to the mismanaged affairs of the University and can take it to the path of progress,” they said.
