NAGPUR: Peeved over the failure of Nagpur University to fill up several teaching and non-teaching posts at the Laxminarayan Institute of Technology (LIT), the Nagpur bench of Bombay high court on Wednesday directed it to take urgent steps within a week.
The directives came after petitioners Prasanna Sohale and others pointed out that the state higher and technical education department and NU had not filled up vacancies in the prestigious institution despite repeated directives from the judiciary.
“We direct NU to take urgent steps for filling up all the vacancies of teaching staff and non-teaching staff and non-teaching technical staff within the next seven days. We also direct the university to place further information regarding the steps taken by it for filling up the existing vacancies after necessary permission was granted by the state on November 25, 2021. On the next date, the university shall remain personally present before this court,” a division bench comprising justices Sunil Shukre and Govinda Sanap said.
On October 7 last year, the HC had passed several strictures on the government and the university and directed both to take immediate action on all such aspects adversely affecting the functioning of prestigious institutions.
Sohale, an LIT alumnus, had approached the judiciary by filing a PIL (No 43/2018) through counsel Rohit Joshi contending that the once famous institute was now slowly losing its reputation due to lack of basic facilities and ever-growing vacancies. It had caused a decline in the quality of education being imparted to the 680 students in one of the oldest institutions of India imparting education in the field of chemical engineering.
