‘Seek explanation from university officers before their removal’

PATNA: Governor-cum-chancellor

Phagu Chauhan

has directed the vice-chancellors (VCs) of all the universities in the state not to send any proposal to his secretariat for termination of service of any officer without seeking an explanation from the latter and making their own comments on the response submitted to them.

In a recent directive, Chauhan said, “If a VC is not satisfied with the working of an officer and considers his termination to be in the academic or administrative interest of his university, he should first seek an explanation from the latter. The officer should be given not less than a week to submit the explanation.”

He added, “If the VC is not satisfied with the explanation, he may send the proposal regarding termination of appointment of the officer along with his own comments.”

The chancellor is empowered to make the appointment of officers like financial advisers, finance officers and registrars under section 9 (7)(ii) of the Bihar State Universities’ Act, 1976 and sub-section 7 of section 10 of the Patna University Act, 1976.

Of late, the VCs of some universities were reportedly sending direct proposals for termination of services of officers duly appointed by the chancellor without fulfilling legal obligations.

New financial advisers appointed: Chancellor Phagu Chauhan has appointed new financial advisers and finance officers in different universities of the state.

The financial advisers include Indra Kumar (Purnea University), Dilip Kumar (L N Mithila University), Madhusudan (Magadh University), and Kailash Ram (K S D Sanskrit University).

The newly appointed finance officers are Shiv Dayal Singh (Patna University), Durga Prasad Mandal (Purnea University), Ram Kishore Singh(Jayaprkash University), Ram Kishore Prasad (Munger University), Vikash Kumar Charan (Nalanda Open University), Syed Mozaffar Hussain (Maulana Mazharul Haq Arabic and Persian University), Shankar Sharan Ambastha (Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University), Kauleshwar Prasad Sah (Patliputra University), Syed Fazle Rahman (L N Mithila University) and Kalyan Prasad (B R A Bihar University).