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A Vice-Chancellor should have a minimum teaching experience of 10 years as a professor in a university and his or her name should be recommended by the search-cum-selection committee. The appointment of a Vice-Chancellor (V-C) is to be made from the names recommended by the search-cum-selection committee, the Supreme Court held in a judgment on Thursday.

A Bench of Justices M.R. Shah and M.M. Sundresh referred to Section 10(3) of the University Act, 2019, which provided that the committee should prepare a list of three persons for appointment as V-C based on their qualification and eligibility.

The judgment dealt with a challenge by Professor Narendra Singh Bhandari, whose appointment as V-C of Soban Singh Jeena University was set aside by the Uttarakhand High Court last year.

The contention against Mr. Bhandari’s appointment was that he did not have the requisite 10-year teaching experience as professor.

He had only eight-and-a-half years’ experience until he was appointed a member of the Uttarakhand Public Service Commission in 2017.

Long leave

However, he made the case that while serving in the commission he was on long leave and his lien continued on the post of professor. He was appointed V-C in 2020.

“Merely because his lien was continued on the post of a professor, it cannot be said that he continued to teach and/or he was having the teaching experience during the period of lien,” Justice Shah, who wrote the judgment, held.


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