NEHUTA seek President’s intervention into irregularities in CAS

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaJuly 30, 2020

The North Eastern Hill University Teachers’ Association (NEHUTA) has sought the intervention of the President of India Ram Nath Kovind, who is also the Visitor of the university, into the alleged irregularities in the promotion of teachers under the Career Advancement Scheme (CAS).

“(We) earnestly requests His excellency to kindly intervene in this matter and direct the Vice Chancellor to implement the long pending cases as early as possible so that justice reigns supreme and the rule of law is established in NEHU for the good of all to save it also from descending into the abyss of total chaos and injustice,” NEHUTA president XP Mao said in a statement issued here on Thursday.

He said the NEHUTA had written to the Vice Chancellor and Chairman, Executive Council of NEHU several times on the matter.

“However, till date the NEHUTA has not received any acknowledgement from his side. Even some individual teachers have written to the Vice Chancellor many times but no reply or acknowledgement has been received from him,” Prof Mao said.

He informed that the NEHUTA also has forwarded the appeal to the Chief Rector of the University and the Governor of Meghalaya, UGC and MHRD.

The NEHUTA has alleged that the incumbent Vice-Chancellor Prof SK Srivastava played pick and choose game with NEHU teachers eligible for promotion under Career Advancement Scheme (CAS) by promoting some, while ignoring the rest.

Prof Mao said the case in point is correction of wrong dates of eligibility for promoted Professors, in which Prof Srivastava only partially implemented ”One Man Committee” led by Prof K Ismail’s recommendation for correction of dates of eligibility in case of some favourite teachers, while leaving rest in the lurch.

The One Man Committee recommended administrative date correction for teachers falling under UGC regulations, 2000, which amounts to upturning the decision of the selection committee by the NEHU Executive Council.

Consequently, for some teachers through an administrative order correction of dates of promotion have been made under UGC Regulations 2000. But under UGC Regulations 2010 some teachers were called for re-assessment on 31.07.2017 and 01.08.2017.

The results of a few were cleared while the assessed result of some teachers was never announced till date. Further, the remainder teachers’ re-assessment is also never done till date.

In the case of remainder of teachers covered under UGC regulations, 2010, the committee recommended reassessment and Prof Srivastava conducted the reassessment by convening selection committee.

“At the end of the process, for reasons best known to him, Prof Srivastava decided to refer to the cases of reassessed teachers to the UGC for its opinion,” the NEHUTA president said.