As per the universities act, every university needs to have four Deans to ensure that each stream like Arts, Commerce, Science, and management is adequately represented.
Nearly eight months after the Maharashtra Public Universities Act, 2016 came into force, appointments to some of the key posts at various universities in the state are still in a limbo. This could have serious implication on the career of the students as there is no one, in most of the cases, to address their concerns and issues.
As per the act, every university needs to have four Deans to ensure that each stream like Arts, Commerce, Science, and management is adequately represented. However, the state government has failed to make way for the appointments long after the implementation of the act as a result of which several universities including the University of Mumbai is running with ad hoc Deans.
Apart from this, the government is also yet to streamline the appointments of various directors of centres and subcentres at the University level. With the ad hoc appointments, some of the key decisions at these centres are being hauled leading to delays in the various processes like examinations, results etc.
Sanjay Vairal, an ex-Senate member at the University said that the delay in making some of the key appointments would be dangerous for students. "in the absence of permanent Deans, those with merely few years of experience who have been appointed on an ad hoc basis would take all the key decisions with respect to academics, which isn't a good sign" added Vairal.
Currently, the university is functioning with temporary governing bodies including the Academic and the management council as permanent appointments to these bodies are yet to be made as per the new act.
Sachin Pawar, President, Student Law Council said that the government should ensure that all the key appointments are made with immediate effect. " Currently the VC, Pro VC, Registrar, Director Examinations are all in charge officials. With students facing so many issues, there is no redressal mechanism with this" he added.
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