These are the Dean's competitive professorships at IOM and IOE

Abhimanyu Jha, Mohanraj Sharma, Nirju Ranjit, Ramchandra Adhikari, Ramesh Singh Bhandari, Dinesh Kafle, Uttamakrishna Shrestha, Mitha Rana, Jyotibabu Shrestha, Sangharatna Bajracharya, Ratnamani Gajurel and Sudha Basnet have applied for the post of Dean of IOM.

After Singh's term ended, Trivi had called for applications two weeks ago to appoint a dean on the basis of competition.

Similarly, the selection and recommendation committee said that the applications of Nandvikram Adhikari, Rajan Suwal, Sudan Jha, Laxman Poudel, Survan Shakya, Maheshchandra Louillet, Hariram Parajuli, Bholanath Sharma Ghimire, Jagat Kumar Shrestha, Sanjita Singh along with Assistant Dean Sushil Bajracharya for the Dean of IOE.

University Executive Council has formed a 3-member selection committee under the coordination of Professor KK Oli for the selection of Dean of IOM. A committee has been formed under the coordination of former dean Jivraj Pokharel in IOE.

Applicants' administrative, academic experience, research articles, technology, research books, curriculum development, examination and evaluation skills and plans are set separately and the competition criteria is set to a total of 100 marks. At the end of the

, there is a criterion to recommend the names of at least 3 people on the basis of 'merit' after evaluating them with an interview. Dean of Institute of Medical and Engineering Studies is considered to be an attractive post. Even before this, political lobbying has been taking place on the basis of access to becoming a dean in these institutes. Out of 9 faculties and institutes, the University requested applications for the appointment of 8 deans.

for Dean of Institute of Science, Technology Studies 11, 9 professors have applied for the deanship of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and 8 professors have applied for the Deanship of the Institute of Forestry Studies and the Faculty of Education. 6 applications have been received for the Dean of the Faculty of Management and 5 for the Dean of the Institute of Agricultural and Animal Science Studies. Only professors or associate professors who have been teaching for at least 10 years are eligible to be appointed as deans.