CHENNAI: A Vacation Judge of the Madras High Court on Thursday ordered notice on a writ petition praying for a directive to the State Government to fill up the posts of vice-chancellors to Anna University, University of Madras and MKU.
When the petition from A Narayanan, director of Change India, Virugambakkam came up before the vacation judge M Govindaraj, the government pleader M K Subramaniam took notice for the State Chief Secretary and the Higher Education Secretary. The judge then posted the matter for hearing after the vacation.
The petition prayed for a directive to the authorities to bring out immediately specific enforceable norms to fix a time frame to complete the process of appointment of vice-chancellors, so that there was no discontinuity or disruption in the effective functioning of the universities and the interest of the student community and higher education was protected.
The petitioner had also submitted a representation to the current Chancellor of State Universities (the Governor-in-charge) on August 27, 2016 highlighting the inordinate delay in VC appointments. On November 11, he sent another representation to the Chancellor. But, there was no positive response.