nagpur :- NU bosses may invited contempt for delaying BoS polls

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The NU is already operating without full-time heads including vice-chancellor, pro-VC, registrar, board of college and university development ( BCUD) director and controller of examinations (CoE). "In all certainty, NU is definitely going to miss the deadline as procedure the is yet to start till date. But no one here is bothered," the official revealed to TOI, adding that now the new statutory bodies will only be constituted after February next year.

Surprisingly, the officiating registrar Mahesh Yenkie who is the returning officer for the polls, was not aware of the developments. "I will take information and only then will be able to offer a comment," he said. When pointed put that the deadline of December 31 for constituting BoS is fast approaching, he said he was very new for the registrar's post and still trying to understand the technicalities.

Officiating vice-chancellor BV Gopala Reddy said as per his knowledge everything was going as per schedule. Former registrar Debendranath Mishra asked TOI to contact Yenkie as he is the returning officer. "I had started the procedure, now it's up to the incumbent to take it further," he said.

Even pro-VC Arvind Chaudhary said he had to check with the authorities but defended the NU by comparing with other universities. "Even Pune and Amravati universities are yet to conduct their BoS polls," he said.

He added that procedure had already been started and it will not make much of a difference if constitution of management and academic councils goes beyond December 31. "Only constitution of senate and BoS is necessary," he claimed.

The senior official however disclosed that as per the law, the procedure should have been started at least three months before all statutory bodies expired, i.e. on August 31. He had even sent many remainders to former VC SN Pathan and registrar Subhash Belsare and also moved the file in January. But no one took it seriously.

When Mishra took over the officiating charge of registrar, he failed to take any action during his six months tenure. "NU even wrote a letter to the chancellor's office seeking extension in dates, but the latter denied citing MU Act," he said.

Deliberating on the long procedure, the official stated that after BoS is constituted, it will select the chairman and then the faculty. After this, deans, heads and experts of various faculties are selected. All these authorities then constitute academic council and subsequently management council will be formed. "Now it will take at least three months to complete the formalities which will invite contempt of the statutory provisions," the official said.