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Vice Chancellors appointment hits legal hurdle
n a major legal embarrassment to the Telangana state government, the High Court at Hyderabad on Thursday quashed its G 0 Ms No. 29 Higher Education (UE) Department dated 11.09.2015 vesting the power of appointment of Chancellor with the state government, G O Ms No. 38 Higher Education (UE & VC) Department dated 19.12.2015 altering the criteria of eligibility for appointment of Vice Chancellor alt
Hyderabad: In a major legal embarrassment to the Telangana state government, the High Court at Hyderabad on Thursday quashed its G 0 Ms No. 29 Higher Education (UE) Department dated 11.09.2015 vesting the power of appointment of Chancellor with the state government, G O Ms No. 38 Higher Education (UE & VC) Department dated 19.12.2015 altering the criteria of eligibility for appointment of Vice Chancellor altering the eligibility conditions for appointment of VCs and vesting the power of appointing the Chancellor of two universities with the government in place of the Governor.
With this judgment, the recent appointment of Vice-Chancellors to eight Universities in the state remains in suspended animation. The judgment also directed that fresh appointments to the posts of VCs in Telangana should be strictly based on the guidelines/regulations of the University Grants Commission.
Highlights:
- 2 GOs amended by state govt quashed by HC
- HC tells govt to follow UGC rules
- 4 weeks time to appeal
The Division Bench comprising of Acting Chief Justice Dilip B Bhosale and Justice A V Sesha Sai delivered the judgment on a batch of the Public Interest Litigation petitions filed by former Professor of Osmania University Dr D Manohar Rao.
However, upon the request of Telangana Advocate General K Ramakrishna Reddy, the bench kept the judgment in abeyance for four weeks to allow the government to go in appeal.
The petitioner challenged the state government's action in amending the AP Universities Act, 1991 in order to make appointments of VCs to universities directly by the government and reducing the role of the Governor.
The state government's decision to reduce the requirement of 10 years of teaching experience to qualify for appointment as VC to only 5 years was also challenged as also the inclusion of any person with 'proven administrative capacity'. The bench quashed the impugned G Os as “arbitrary, illegal and contrary to provisions of the AP Reorganisation Act”.
The Division Bench during the hearing on Monday had taken serious view of Telangana government's decision to appoint VCs to eight universities even as the PIL was being heard and disposed off.
“When the government had kept the posts vacant for the last two years, it could not wait for a few more days for the outcome of this petition”, stated the Bench then making clear its displeasure over the action of the government.
