Vedic varsity yet to get regular Vice-Chancellor
Tirupati: The appointment of Vice-Chancellor (V-C) for the TTD run Sri Venkateswara Vedic University (SVVU) is pending since August last year. The post fell vacant after the three-year term of V-C KE Devanatham had ended in July last year. SVVU which was established in 2006 believed to be the only one in the country offering post graduate and PhD courses in Veda and allied subjects.
The present student strength is 450 and the varsity is still in nascent stage which direly requires a full-time devoted head to ensure its planned growth. Though the Vedic institution is wholly funded by TTD, which has no dearth of funds, the university is still to get some more infrastructure facilities like buildings while the required staff is also to be recruited with only about 30 percent of the sanctioned posts filled with regular and contract basis, underlining the need of an efficient head.
TTD Joint Executive Officer (JEO) Pola Bhaskar was posted as in-charge V-C with full additional charge, looking after the SVVU after KE Devanatham term ended in 2016. It is needless to say that Tirupati JEO, who is busy with the administrative work, local temples management and also conducting series of TTD programme is hardly in a position to look after the management of Vedic university, said Chakravarthy Raghavan, a Sanskrit scholar stressing the early appointment of V-C for Vedic university.
TTD and SVVU sources said that a search committee was appointed by the state government to suggest a panel of three eligible persons for selecting one of them as V-C and panel gave its report to government which was forwarded to the Governor, who is the Chancellor of the University.
The committee could suggest only two against three as only two eligible candidates have applied and both of them were the former V-Cs of the Vedic varsity. On condition of anonymity, a senior official of Vedic University said that they are expecting the appointment of V-C soon as TTD is also keen on filling the key post.