Principals appointed in the last year in about 45 self-financing colleges affiliated to Bharathiar University (BU) have, reportedly, not been able to secure the varsity’s approval as yet.
The managements of the colleges are said to be awaiting a response from the university for formation of a Selection Committee based on a government order (G.O.) issued during 2021, which indicates that the norms for appointment of principals, promotion of faculty from assistant professor to associate professor cadre in government and government-aided colleges applies to self-financing (private) colleges as well.
In the absence of a specific communication from the university at the start of the academic year on formation of Selection Committee for the appointment of new principals, managements of self-financing colleges had gone ahead with selecting the principals based on the qualification norms specified by the University Grants Commission (UGC).
Most of the principals appointed in self-financing colleges in fulfilment of the UGC norms were retirees from government and government-aided colleges. A number of private colleges had to appoint new principals in the wake of an official directive that those who have been in the post for more than 10 years have to be replaced.
