Lucknow: In a significant development, Lucknow University vice-chancellor’s proposal to induct the four ‘newly appointed deans’ as ex-officio members of the examination and admission committees was defeated by teachers on Saturday.
The meetings of the two committees witnessed heated debate and a secret ballot was held. In the admission committee meeting, the VC’s proposal was rejected by seven out of 11 members and in the examination committee, nine out of 14 members voted against it.
Earlier, teachers had rejected VC’s direction to adopt the state government’s common minimum syllabus.
The VC had created four posts of dean — one each for academics, recruitment, research and admissions — last year, saying it will make functioning smoother and more transparent.
The teachers’ association opposed it on the grounds that the post of dean is a statutory position whose eligibility criteria has been defined in State University Act, hence any deviation from it is illegal.
LUTA also wrote to the chancellor and chief minister in this regard.
On Saturday, the proposal to make these four deans ex-officio members of the two committees was tabled under section 50 (3) of the Act.
LUTA president Prof Vineet Verma said, “Section 50 (3) states that for creation of a new post it is necessary to first take opinion of those whose power will be affected by it, but it was not followed in this case. Hence, most teachers, including office bearers of LUTA and LU Associated College Teachers' Association (LUACTA) rejected it.”
LU spokesperson Prof Durgesh Srivastava admitted that the proposal was rejected in both the meetings.
