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High Court stays Madras varsity scheme

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Career advancement plan for lecturers

CHENNAI: A Madras University Syndicate resolution on career advancement scheme for lecturers in the Centre for South and South-East Asian Studies has been stayed by the Madras High Court.

Justice R. Balasubramanian granted interim stay on a writ petition filed by S. Manivasakan, a lecturer in the same department.

The petitioner said the resolution sought to undermine the University Grants Commission (UGC) guidelines and the procedures all along followed. Faulting the formation of a committee to select a person, he said, "it is only a personal uplift of the lecturer on completion of four years with Ph. D and six years without Ph. D. There is no question of any post and selecting a person and posting thereon. In the absence of any post, there is no question of constituting any committee or selecting a person."

The university authorities have constituted a committee to select the persons as if they were going to give promotion to the post of senior-scale lecturer, Mr. Manivasakan said, adding that the incumbent in-charge head of the centre, who is not a competent person to hold the post, had been entrusted with the job of identifying candidates. "It will be a mockery to ask a person to find out an expert when he himself is not an expert in the subject," he said. Maintaining that the State Government's concurrence had not been obtained by the authorities, he said, "in the absence of any order from the Government, the scheme cannot be implemented." He prayed for an interim stay on the Resolution No. 51 of the agenda placed before the Syndicate on September 9, and quash it in so far as it related to the Centre for South and South Asian Studies of the university.

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