At an NUJS Kolkata executive committee meeting today (24 September), the term of vice chancellor (VC) Ishwara Bhat was extended for five years, according to several authoritative sources.
We have reached out to Bhat for comment.
Bhat’s term was due to expire on 1 December 2016, after having been appointed in November 2011 from Mysore University (at the time, he said that “NUJS has an excellent faculty and a very good name. Former VCs have built NUJS’ reputation and I will continue to maintain that tradition and strive for excellence").
It is understood that the EC meeting agenda item to discuss the extension of his tenure was unexpectedly added earlier in the week for today’s meeting.
Some students and faculty are understood to have resisted his extension, bemoaning a declining quality in faculty, lacklustre faculty recruitment, as well as a general lack of transparency from the administration.
We also recently reported on the VC deciding to continue with a contract that a judicial inquiry held to be illegal, and on the university having paid a former judge Rs 75,000 to produce a draft of service rules that were derided as “patently illegal”, draconian, plagiarised and “suicidal”.
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Students are the primary stakeholders and the EC has clearly ignored their concerns.
The alleged incompetence of the VC has been rewarded by 5 more years by the EC which is probably full of cronies who do not care at all about NUJS and just want to get on with their lives without any regard for their responsibilities.
If the allegations are true then it would seem as if the VC himself has no self respect and is clinging on to his government job like a regular bureaucrat despite resistance from all stakeholders.
Bhat, you are a shame.
The VC, EC, Government of WB, the Government of India, the BCI, the law ministry, the HRD ministry, the Chancellor who is the CJI himself, have never cared, do not care and will never care about the University or its students.
The students are alone and will have to continue working hard to show the world their worth with absolutely no help, rather, with plenty of negative contributions by the above mentioned.
NUJS
2000-2016
On 26 September, a Christian Burial Ceremony will be held at Park Street Cemetery, followed by a Hindu Shraddh Ceremony at Arya Samaj Salt Lake on 30 September.
All are invited. Tea and refreshments will be served.
Also, can a PIL be filed since no call for applications was advertised? How can Madhav Menon and MP Singh get shorter terms than this guy?
This is a sobering moment for Legally India and Mr Kian Ganz. It shows the limitations of honest journalism in India.
We need to take matters in our own hands and form an "alternative" faculty of our best and most accomplished alumni. They will teach the same courses as our faculty, but do it a million times better. They can take evening classes, weekend classes or even video conferencing classes. Even if one alum takes just one class, we can easily manage 50 different classes with 50 different alums. That's a lot!
We just need to have the bare minimum attendance for our regular classes (or just sleep in them), while we devote our real attention to these alternative classes. What say guys?
On the contrary, I can give a list of some highly accomplished alumni of NUJS and other NLUs (in Delhi, Mumbai and abroad) who have never visited even once. This includes NLU alumni teaching in universities abroad, as well as people at NLUD, NALSAR, Jindal and Azim Premji.
Lol. RIP NUJS.
It is time for the GB to unite (for a change) and think about a strategy.
1. To make up for poor faculty, 100 senior alumni of NUJS/other NLUs in law firms will give 100 different guest lectures via video link in the evenings/on weekends. A proper lecture plan will be formed. So 100 important topics will be covered by 100 different experts without dependence on the NUJS faculty. Furthermore, a few good NLU alumni are already in the academic profession in India(at other law schools). These people are anyway used to giving lectures to students and have lecture notes ready.
2. In the ultimate snub to Bhat, a video lectures series on Constitutional Law should be started without Bhat being invited to any of them.
3. Form an SJA advisory board with alumni of NUJS/other NLUs.
4. Blacklist chamcha students from the parallel government, i.e. students who suck up to the VC [...]
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