Thiruvananthapuram: Governor Arif Mohammed Khan, on Tuesday, raised again Prof.
Gopinath Ravindran as Deputy Chancellor of Kannur University for four years with the effect of November 24.
Returns, in the history of the higher education sector in the state, it was made even because the government had formed the search committee for the selection of candidates who were suitable for the representative of Chancellor and November 30 were told as the last date for candidates to send their applications.
Save the University Campaign Committee, the Whistle-Blower Group in the Higher Education Sector, has shot a letter to the governor against this reappointment.
The committee said that the appointment could only be counted as a political gift to set land to accuse the illegal appointment of KK Ragesh’s CPM leader as a professor of Associate in the Malayalam Department of Kannur University.
Ragesh is the private secretary of the minister of the chairman.
“According to the university law, the candidate chosen as Chancellor’s representative must be less than 60 years old at the time of appointment.
However, the governor ratified the government’s recommendations based on the claim that Gopinath Ravindran became the removal, the age bar set by UGC did not need to be applied in his case, “The campaign committee said.
It also accused that the removal of the Regional Representative of Kannur Chancellor will leave the representative of other Chancellor more vulnerable to political influence on the basis of Quid Pro Quo.
Gopinath Ravindran allegedly gone ‘an extra mile’ by speeding up the process of selecting candidates for the position of Associate Professor with, allegedly, said UGC norms.
Allegedly that the screening committee was established the following day after receiving all applications and online interviews arranged in four more days.
Also, the committee accused that the first rank was given to Ragesh’s wife, said UGC norms.
Want the governor to attract the removal of Gopinath Ravindran.
Ravindran was reappointed as the University of Kannur VC
