The Hindu : Delay in appointment of OU V-C resented

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Saturday, Jun 22, 2002

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Southern States - Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad

Delay in appointment of OU V-C resented

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD JUNE 21. Speakers at a seminar organised by the Forum for Social Justice here on Friday demanded immediate appointment of a vice-chancellor for Osmania University for which not even a search committee had so far been formed.

Raising several issues dogging the university, they said if there was a demand from some sections that this time the V-C should be from a weaker section there was nothing wrong in it. The university had eminent professors falling under this category and their intellectual abilities or administrative skills needed no introduction.

Their demand should not be misinterpreted as a suggestion to compromise on the academic abilities or scholastic aptitude, they said. In fact there should be no compromise on the administrative, academic, research and teaching capabilities of the candidate, they said. There were several professors who had produced more than 20 Ph.Ds and an equal number of M.Phils. The university did not have, except for a brief period of three years in its 83 years history, a V-C from backward or SC or ST communities.

The university's academic standards must be upgraded and serious issues like that of medium were hanging fire. They blamed the Government for the delay in the appointment of the V-C and said about 80 per cent of the students of OU were from backward sections of society.

P.L.Vishweshwar Rao, Keshav Rao Jadhav, Mohan Singh and Chakradhar Rao spoke.

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