NUJS Kolkata has a new interim vice chancellor (VC), retired Calcutta high court judge and former SAT chairman Amit Talukdar, following the resignation of previous VC Prof Ishwara Bhat.
Story to be updated.
This satisfies the requirement of NUJS students, some of whom had privately doubted that Bhat would retire as promised by 7 April, as we had reported in our detailed feature about the final days of the successful student protests.
The Student Juridical Association (SJA) had also demanded that a respected retired judge should oversee the NUJS transition during the semester break.
The SJA sent the following email to students today:
Pursuant to all your efforts, Justice (Retd.) Amit Talukdar has been appointed as the interim Vice Chancellor. He is scheduled to join us from Monday.
The next Executive Council meeting (first week of May) will be considering the constitution of a search committee for the next Vice Chancellor, the appointment of a new interim Registrar and other recommendations of the University Review Commission (URC) in detail.
We sincerely hope that we will continue to draw inspiration from these words of the URC:
“28. The exceptional student body of NUJS, the Student Juridical Association (SJA) is another feather in the cap of NUJS.
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29.The Commission agrees with this self-assessment of the SJA. We feel proud of the NUJS Law Review which is a product of the student body and also of the initiative they take in initiating short courses, lectures and speeches to expand their knowledge and understanding. The Commission also expresses our appreciation for the enormous effort made by SJA to organize the views presented to the Commission on behalf of students in a representative and systematic manner, and for the high quality of its meticulous presentation. Many points raised by the students are very substantive and meritorious and, wherever feasible, should be accepted and acted upon by the University. Our interaction with the SJA confirms that one of the great achievements of NUJS has been the building up of a student culture of active engagement with community issues - a rarity today even in globally ranked institutions. This should be preserved and strengthened. Notwithstanding NUJS’s institutional ranking, many consider the student body of NUJS as the best amongst the national law schools in the country.”
Proud of you all
Arjun Agarwal Samarth Sharma
(President) (Vice-President)
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If pigs fly....daydreaming time is over.
on December 22, 1979 and practised in Criminal and Constitutional matters in the Calcutta High Court. He
was appointed as a permanent Judge of the Calcutta High Court on February 24,1999.
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1) Complaint is made about infrastructure. At NLSIU buildings are oldest and falling down but instead of complaining students win Jessops moot court. They have no ceiling fan, no AC, no single hostel room, no good food and water in mess, no foreign qualified faculties but give 100% hard work without complaining.
2) Complaint is made that faculties is bad and NLU alumnis needed. But NUJS has most NLU alumnis. If they come then it is said "they are arrogant", "they are Mysore Mafia" etc. So real reason is "bad" means strict and sincere.
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Before you read all the biased news reports about Prof Bhat, please first understand how bad NUJS students are. Prof Bhat did the right thing by imposing more discipline and installing CCTV.
To respond to your comment about PIB, he instilled zero discipline in campus/university, period. Multiple irregularities throughout his 6 years plagued the institution, most of which he was himself complicit in, either through action or omission, and even where students had been at fault, he did absolutely nothing to rectify the scenario, unless you call arranging special favours for students from influential families maintaining discipline. If an institutional head is strict, but fair, along with having empathy for the students and the staff and the institution as a whole, he would never be hounded out of the same institution as PIB has been. Even the people he favoured blatantly throughout his tenure were not there at his side when he left, which sums up his entire contribution to the university. So, if you are an insider and likes him so much, feel free to join him outside. If you are an outsider, then congratulations, you already have a hero to follow.
1) Rule is that for any teacher you must have either PhD or LLM with UGC-NET (for assistant professor). Prof Dam does not have anything.
2) In exceptional case person with only LLM without UGC-NET can be made contractual or visiting lecturer, of lower rank than assistant professor. Furthermore only excellent candidates can get this privilege.
3) It is totally prohibited only for LLB pass to give lectures.
Hence only possibility for alumnis to teach can be either option 1 or 2. That also only for top candidates with top marks, international publications in top journals etc. For VC position alumni must have minimum 10 to 15 years teaching experience of professor rank. Hence Prof Dam can only be considered for assistant professor rank.
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He has no doctorate, only masters
1) We will choose the VC.
2) We want faculty from abroad but we will decide the rank and position.
3) We want alumni as faculty but they cannot be strict with marks, attendance class discipline etc. They will have to listen to our orders. Otherwise we will abuse them and demand their ouster.
4) Our faculty has to be the best. They have to leave high-paying jobs at law firms, companies, Jindal etc and teach here at low salary, and then listen to our orders.
5) Even though some fo the faculty has no competence and knowledge, we still want them as they give high marks.
6) We want hostel rooms like luxury hotels, but our fee has to be lower than a government college hostel.
7) It is our right to drink, take drugs, do anti-social activities. If you try to discipline us it is "moral policing".
8) It is the duty of the college to give everyone a high-paying corporate job but our fee still has to be low.
9) Administrative staff are our servants.
was he breaking some rules? not at all. UGC rules themselves provide for an exception: people can be appointed professors withou phd, net, bla bla provided they have outstanding contribution to legal scholarship. That was the route by which they were appointed and shubhankar dam was offered less than 2 years after he graduated from NUJS. he wasnt deviating from anything. he was simply following UGC rules. the only problem is people like to fire off messages without actually knowing basic facts. any advertisement for professor position under UGC rules will have that exception mentioned. there are plenty of these advertisements available on google. read carefully before you fire off your next message to tell us how much you know about the UGC
You may abuse and call names, but kindly remember that RULES IS RULES. If you do not have autonomy from UGC then you must appoint strictly per UGC rules and give preference to two year LLM graduates from India with UGC NET. Just having foreign LLM cannot do. Please get rid of colonial mentality of being slaves to whites.
I have full respect for Prof MP Singh but I am sorry to say that he did into follow UGC rules. Prof Bhat honestly followed UGC rules 200% and is being punished for being law abiding by people who do not know any rules.
Violation of UGC rules? Nah you would need to know the rules first.
Bhat punished for following ugc rules? I wouldn't know that one. Never heard about that.you may be right. I can't tell
The candidate may, however, be requested to present a colloquium (not an interview) in the University. Now, it can be done by video conferencing too.
@Commentator 29: Exactly how difficult is it to get a fictitious name of your own instead of trying to use that of a regular reader/commentator, man? I wouldn't really care to be associated with the sort of opinions you seem to hold.
Contrary to someone else commenting, the only way to actually 'reserve' a name on LI is to open a free account and log-in (though that slows down the site a little bit).
But it also puts you outside the pre-moderation queue completely, which is nice.
You can sign up with a fake email address, if you like, since I have no idea about your true identity.
I will also do some thinking about whether it's possible to block usernames for regular comments, without requiring sign-in, though that could be a difficult challenge to solve...
i suppose the only thing now left is for SJA to retroactively throw out MP Singh from NUJS for his "illegalities". I think Thanos predicted that
So, please God's sake, just leave this habit of harping for NLU alumni or a young candidate for VC. Madahv Menon, BS Chimni and MP Singh were past 60 when they joined NUJS as VC.
Thus, Bhat was deliberately being obstructionist and trying to promote his own cronies.
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