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Vadodara: Violating the policy rules of the Department of Architecture at MS University, Vadodara, the Vice Chancellor took an arbitrary decision and appointed five temporary professors who are conducting only online lectures. The university professor has written a letter to the Chief Minister against the VC with such allegations.
Alleging the appointment of five practicing professors in the Architecture Department of MS University, Professor Satish Pathak, a senior professor of the University, has complained to the Chief Minister against the VC. Prof.Satish Pathak VC Prof.Dr. The educational qualification and experience of Vijaykumar Srivastava has also been challenged in the High Court. Whose hearing is still going on.
In his complaint to the Chief Minister regarding the recent appointments in the Architecture Department, he has said that a person having expertise and technical knowledge in various fields does not have merit as a professor but for an educational institution and if so However, the Department of Architecture is an institution under the control of the Architecture Councilor rather than the UGC and the rule of Professor of Practice does not apply to it.
However, Prof. Dr. Vijay Srivastava has harmed the interests of the institute by appointing five candidates to benefit his patrons, and the faculty appointed in this manner are conducting lectures online only. Actually they will have to come and work in the department. Now the responsibility of taking offline lectures has fallen on five temporary professors.
Professor Pathak further said that the number of temporary faculty has been reduced for the appointment of Professor of Practice. Which is also against the guidelines of UGC. In such a situation, the Chief Minister’s Office should investigate this matter and take action. There is talk in the professor community that the professor has filed a complaint. But the government will not take any action or investigation, because the education department of the government has stopped paying attention to MS University.
The professor has already complained on other issues. But the government has not taken any action on this. Even Education Minister Hrishikesh Patel is not ready to accept or listen that something wrong is happening in MS University. The condition of the Architecture department is very bad, there are 17 posts of teachers in this department. But all the posts are vacant except one head, which is being filled by recruitment of ad-hoc faculty, now the number of ad-hoc faculty has also been reduced by appointing Professor of Practice.
