Telangana Governor calls for VCs meet tomorrow

Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan has called for a meeting of vice chancellors of universities on September 24 at the Darbar Hall in Raj Bhavan.

The Governor has called for the meeting in her capacity as Chancellor of all universities in the state. Almost all universities in the state are headed by vice chancellors who are IAS officers. The state government has appointed eight IAS officers as caretaker vice chancellors of various universities.

There is a shortage of IAS officers in Telangana, with the result that each officer holds charge of three or four important major departments, as well as now being caretaker vice-chancellors of universities. Vice-chancellors do the day-to-day work of the university while the Chancellor is just a titular head.

There are no full-fledged



vice chancellors in eight universities in TS. Principal secretary Arvind Kumar has charge of the very important municipal administration and urban development department and is caretaker vice-chancellor of Osmania University in and Mahatma Gandhi University.

Principal secretary, agriculture, cooperation and marketing departments, is caretaker vice-chancellor of B R Ambedkar University. IAS officer V. Anil Kumar, commissioner of commercial taxes and in-charge commissioner of the endowment department and member secretary of the State Pollution Control Board, was appointed caretaker vice-chancellor of Potti Sriramulu Telugu University and Telangana University.

Kakatiya University, JNTU Hyderabad, Palamuru University and other universities are also headed by IAS officers.