Save education panel urges guv to intervene

T’puram: Save Education Campaign Committee has urged state governor Arif Mohammed Khan to give directions to universities to follow a uniform recruitment procedure lest the reservation norms are flouted.
Different and contradictory procedures followed by state universities for the recruitment of faculties could torpedo reservation norms and hence the request for intervention into the matter, the committee said in a petition submitted to the governor who is also the chancellor of the universities.
Calicut University issued notifications inviting applications to fill teaching posts in various subjects without showing the reservation turn, in compliance with the judgement of the Kerala high court. In the verdict, the HC directed not to earmark reservation in the notification and to recruit candidates as per the roster following Kerala State and Subordinate Services Rules (KS&SSR) and reservation shall be looked at the time appointments.
Contrary to this HC judgement, Kerala University and Cusat issued notifications for the selection of teaching posts specifying communal reservations as done earlier. Statutes of all universities clearly stipulate that in making appointment for all posts as determined by the syndicate in any service, class or category under the university, the university shall mutatis mutandis observe the provisions of clause (a), (b) & (c) of Rule 14 and the provisions of Rule 15, 16, 17 and 17A of KS&SSR - 1958 as amended from time to time. Hence the selection process of teaching faculties of all universities in the state should follow a uniform procedure.
The present selection process is adopting contrasting notifications and selection procedure by individual universities in the state, said the petition, was in violation of the specific clauses of KS&SSR and are aimed at giving appointing authorities a freehand to manipulate communal reservation.