T.N. government actively pursuing V-C appointment issue in courts, Higher Education Minister tells Assembly

The Tamil Nadu government has been taking all necessary steps to find a solution to the impasse over appointment of Vice-Chancellors to State-run universities, which would protect the rights of the State, Higher Education Minister P. Viswanathan told the Assembly on Monday.

Taking part in the debate on the Demand for Grants for the Higher Education Department, Mr. Viswanathan said the issue had been caught up in litigation at the Madras High Court and the government was taking all measures, legally and administratively, to pursue this. “We are committed to finding a solution, and this issue is part of the vision document of this government,” he emphasised. Twelve out of 13 universities in the State, with the exception of Mother Teresa Women’s University, had been functioning without Vice-Chancellors for several years, the latest to add to the list being Manonmaniam Sundaranar University and Alagappa University.