HC order opens Pandora’s box in higher education sector
The Hindu
It may lead to annulment of postings in at least five varsities
The High Court order to quash the appointments of 58 teachers in Kerala University has opened a Pandora’s box in the higher education sector. The judgement is feared to pave the way for the annulment of numerous appointments made in at least five State universities since 2014. The court’s single-bench order has also put a question mark on the legal validity of the University Laws (Second Amendment) Act, 2014 passed by the State Assembly, which formed the basis of the appointments made in 2017. Like many others across the country, the university had abandoned the practice of applying separate communal rotation for each category of teaching posts in each department. Instead, teaching posts were pooled category-wise by treating all the departments as a single unit. Other universities, including Kannur, Calicut, Mahatma Gandhi Universities, Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit and National University of Advanced Legal Studies, have all been following the procedure since 2014.
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