Anna University V-C Surappa’s term ends

Anna University’s Vice-Chancellor M.K. Surappa, whose tenure was marked by hostile relations with the federal government, will demit workplace on Sunday with no readability on who will head the college administration.

A convener committee to deal with the administration of the college has not been shaped but.

At the identical time, until Saturday night, Mr. Surappa stated he had not obtained any communication from Governor and Chancellor Banwarilal Purohit on extending his term.

Last yr, Mr. Purohit had prolonged the tenure of the V-Cs of Alagappa University and Bharathidasan University on their final working day, triggering an issue. In the case of then BDU V-C P. Manisankar, the extension order got here after he had demitted workplace and left city.

Anna University has not but constituted a convener committee to hold out the actions within the absence of the V-C. An official stated, “The Vice-Chancellor has to convene the Syndicate and make necessary arrangements. So far, he has not called.”

However, within the Syndicate assembly on March 11, through which all ex-officio members participated, the members had chosen the Syndicate nominee for the V-C search panel. University school had identified then that the V-C would don’t have any time to convene one other assembly earlier than the top of his tenure. With the mannequin code of conduct for the Assembly election in place, the federal government didn’t present particulars of the remainder of the members of the search panel.

A supply stated the federal government had issued a gazette notification that the Jawaharlal Nehru University V-C Jagadeesh Kumar was chosen because the Chancellor’s nominee and retired bureaucrat Sheela Rani Chunkath as the federal government’s nominee. The notification was circulated among the many members.

No farewell

With no data on the extension of Mr. Surappa’s tenure, the college didn’t prolong him a farewell both.

Hailing from Karnataka, Mr. Surappa is on the college listing of the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, and was thought of an “outsider”. In November final, the Higher Education Department instituted an inquiry committee, headed by retired choose P. Kalaiyarasan, primarily based on claims within the title of three individuals that Mr. Surappa had accepted bribe for appointments.