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Teaching staff seek ‘sympathetic’ stand

MYSORE: Faced with the threat of dismissal from service, the teaching staff of University of Mysore, comprising professors, readers and lecturers, who had been recruited during the last ten months of Prof. J. Shashidhar Prasad’s tenure as Vice-Chancellor, urged the university to adopt a “sympathetic” stand on their appointments.

About 50 members of the teaching staff of the university called on acting Vice-Chancellor Ishwar Bhat on Tuesday, and expressed concern over the show cause notice issued by the Government against their appointments.

The meeting came a day ahead of the special Syndicate meeting scheduled on Wednesday to finalise the university’s response to the Government’s show cause notice against the appointments, which had been carried out in violation of the reservation system. The Government had issued a show cause notice to the university seeking to know why the appointments to about 70 posts of professors, readers and lecturers in various departments of the university should not be cancelled on the grounds of violations in the reservation system. Of the 135 appointments in 2007, more than 70 had allegedly been in violation of the rules.

The teaching staff, urged Prof. Bhat to take a “sympathetic” view instead of resorting to en-masse cancellation of appointments.

Prof. C. Basavaraj from the Department of Law, University of Mysore, told The Hindu that most of the appointments were legal as the teaching staff had the requisite qualifications, experience and exposure in research work. “It is a false accusation that all the appointments were in violation of the law,” he said.

He said the authorities should consider the appointments on a case to case basis.

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