Colleges want 1 year to fill principals' post

Colleges want 1 year to fill principals' post

Mumbai: With two days left for the deadline to end, several colleges across the state still do not have full-time principals.
College managements are now planning to approach the Supreme Court to get a year’s extension. The last date to fill up vacant posts is May 31.
Acting on a 2008 high court order, the state’s higher education department had issued a government resolution (GR) in 2009 to universities instructing them to ask colleges to fill up posts of principals by March 31, 2009. College managements moved the Supreme Court. On May 29, 2009, the apex court gave the colleges an extension of a year to fill up the posts.
However, management of several colleges affiliated to the Mumbai University claim they received the nod to advertise for the post last week, leaving them with little time to complete the recruitment process.
The universities are expected to submit a status report to the state in June. However, sources in the state government said that there has not been much progress at most institutes.
“As far as Mumbai University is concerned, we have only one conducted college, JBIMS, which has a principal. The other colleges are affiliated colleges and their appointments are not under our purview,’’ said Chandra Krishnamurthy, acting vice-chancellor, Mumbai University.
Krishnamurthy, who is also vice-chancellor of SNDT University, said interviews were being conducted for colleges affiliated to SNDT, but there is no clarity on the number of posts filled.
“SNDT University has 12 conducted colleges of which four have acting principals. We had advertised before, but didn’t get a good response. We have set up interviews and hope to meet the deadline,” she said.
The situation seems better at Pune University. RK Shevgaonkar, Pune University vice-chancellor, said all affiliated colleges were told to fill up vacant post several months ago and all the managements had initiated the recruitment process. “We'll comply by the apex court's order,” he said.

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