Chennai: Of the total 32 applicants who applied for the post of vice chancellor of Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, more than half of them failed to qualify due to the enhanced guidelines issued by the Governor office at Raj Bhavan.
With the post of vice chancellors under cloud, the governor office is clear in recruiting an eminent person for the top post, whose appointment does not invite any criticism, a confidential source in correspondence with the search panel committee told DC.
Responding to the news item carried in DC in which the academicians cried foul over the functioning of search panel committee, the source displayed the recent communications and the norms issued by Raj Bhavan which makes it difficult for the academicians to qualify for the interaction and then during the interview of the shortlisted seven, only three will be forwarded to Raj Bhavan by next week.
If required, the panel is ready to share the reasons for rejecting every biodata that was submitted to the nodal officer by the aspiring candidates. In fact some good bio data of eminent veterinarians were discarded as they failed to enroll their names with the veterinary council of India. Letters were sent to 72 veterinary and livestock institutions in the country to ensure that a good stream of academicians are screened by the panel, the source said.
However, those who were rejected by the panel alleged that the committee maintained stoic silence during selections and had recommended a few corrupt names without doing background checks. “The applications of former vice chancellors were rejected by the panel even without an interaction and their names were related to corruption charges, but their juniors and associates who also shared the booty back then are now recommended by the panel. Is this not a contradiction? Then if bio data’s of former VCs are simply rejected at the stage one without an official interaction or a mark list what does this mean or can we say that the former governor is at fault for appointing such inadequate academicians”, wondered a retired professor.
