JNU teachers question registrar appointment

NEW DELHI: The Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers’ Association on Saturday alleged there was incongruity in the process of ratifying

Professor Anirban Chakraborti’s

appointment as the university registrar by the executive council during its meeting a day ago.

The teachers’ body also alleged that JNU vice-chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar during Friday’s virtual meeting of the executive council chose to mute two elected faculty representatives throughout the discussion on important agenda matters.

The VC had appointed Chakraborti, a former dean of the School of Computational and Integrative Sciences, as registrar on March 17, following which the

JNUTA

alleged that there was no

EC meeting

to deliberate on the matter.

The EC in a statement after its 294th meeting on Friday said a “few faculty members of JNU have tried to manufacture a controversy over an

appointment

which is otherwise a routine process”.