Aneraswaviyu warned officials to block university entry, Maoists in defense
The ruling UML has expressed its dissatisfaction with the process of appointing deans and campus heads to meritorious candidates from the competition and has pressed for the appointment on the basis of quotas. UML General Secretary Shankar Pokharel wrote on social media and alleged that 'an ugly drama of meritocracy has been staged to ban a certain ideological group in Trivima'.
He accused the vice-chancellor Kesharjung Baral of customizing the creation of appointment criteria and formation of the selection and recommendation committee and asked him to stop the process . At this time, VC Kesharjung Baral of Tribhuvan University is engrossed in the plan to select the academic leadership of the university to represent the power of the time in the name of meritocracy. He has put it in the garb of meritocracy,' Pokharel wrote, 'and the Maoist supporters close to him are enthusiastically supporting and appreciating it.' They would not have any interest or interference in who should be placed in the committee . He could lead the selection to the Rector, who is in charge of academic leadership, or he could prepare a roster of academics and select the members of the selection committee based on a lottery. But he didn't do both of those things . He formed a selection committee to select the person he wanted. Accordingly, the selection criteria were prepared.'
Pokharel alleges that this type of activity will not advance the university but will further ruin it. So let's stop the ugly play done in the name of meritocracy. Let's proceed with the entire work in an open and transparent manner keeping in mind the long-term interests of the university," he wrote.
At present, TRI has started the process of appointing deans in 8 faculties including medical, engineering, management, science, agriculture, forestry, humanities and pedagogy. However, UML is angry after the selection of the recommendation committee is short of professors. Vice-Chancellor Baral has been arguing that those who are number one should be appointed on the basis of merit . According to the source, the number of emalenikat professors in the first number is zero .
There is a difference within the executive council whether to appoint one of the three recommended or to appoint the number one who is meritorious . The executive council has a majority of professors from the UML side. The procedure of appointment criteria and recommendation and selection committee was made by the executive and the process was started.
The UML fraternal organization Aneraswaviyu is seeking a share in the appointment and has threatened to block the vice-chancellor and other officials from entering the university if they do not do so. Aneraswaviyu Terri District Committee met the Vice Chancellor Baral, Rector Khadg KC and Registrar Kedar Rizal and warned that if they are not satisfied with the appointment process, they will block the admission to the university. The group headed by Committee Chairman and SWU Secretary Siddhant Bhatt reached the Vice-Chancellor's office on Sunday and demanded that a dean be appointed in the UML quota as well.
ANERASWIU has placed a black banner with demands in the office of the Vice-Chancellor, Rector and Registrar with various demands including the immediate appointment of Dean. An employee said that instead of communicating with Pashupati Adhikari, the head of the Directorate of Student Welfare and the coordinator of the negotiation committee, the student team went to meet the officials. "Initially, they said that they would stop the Niti Assembly. The official replied that it was posted at the Prime Minister's request, stop it,' said the employee, 'Then he threatened that he would not be allowed to enter the university if he did not get the quota for the appointment of the dean.' ; We went to discuss our demands. We have said that the dean should be appointed according to the criteria. The criteria is not necessarily the first number on merit. "Whatever is done among the 3 recommended people," he said, "we also have other demands." They did not listen much to the demand . If the demand is not met, we can stop it.' During the tenure of the former Vice Chancellor Dharmakant Baskota, the Congress-affiliated Navy Sangh had also blocked university admissions and locked them for more than 400 days with various demands. But at that time Aneraswaviyu opposed it and even broke the lock .
Samik Badal, Central President of ANERASWIU, has also publicly opposed the process of giving appointments on the basis of merit . Like General Secretary Pokharel, he also criticized Vice Chancellor Baral and asked him to "stop the art of choosing faces close to him by forming a selection committee of his own choice in the name of meritocracy". He says that ANERASWA is in favor of transparent meritocracy.
On social media, UML leaders, workers, close professors, students have also protested against Vice-Chancellor Baral's statement of appointing the first number. The argument of the UML side is that since Baral himself was number two in merit when the vice chancellor was appointed, if the dean of the first rank is to be appointed now, he should leave the post . Baral was appointed by former Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal.
When UML started criticizing the vice chancellor, the opposition Maoists defended him . Ramesh Malla, Dahal's personal secretary and former president of All Revolutionaries, has accused the university of turning the university into a recruitment center for UML workers by appointing officials from their pockets. "When appointing rector and registrar, UML put pressure to such an extent that it took two months for the chancellor to appoint them based on meritocracy due to the non-cooperation of the main leader of the alliance," he also wrote on social media.
Congress-Maoist during appointment of Vice Chancellor and UML-Maoist in power alliance during appointment of rector and registrar. According to Malla, UML did not object when the person favorable to him was appointed on the basis of meritocracy. "Recently, there was no opposition to the appointment of co-examination controllers because the candidates who are suitable there are given the first merit, but the dean has been obstructing the appointment after seeing that their interests will not be fulfilled," he said. , UMA General Secretary's statement confirms that the meritocracy implemented in the university has caused a lot of headache to those who have been causing chaos.
Other leaders of Maoists, close professors and staff, professors and students of the ruling Congress have also stood in favor of Merit . Emalenikat professors have been absent in the executive council meeting. They have also been holding the opinion that the executive should arrange for the appointment of anyone among those recommended. 8 deans and 18 campus chief posts are vacant since last June. Since last October, the appointment of the dean and the campus head was also held back saying that they would all be done at the same time .
Vice-Chancellor Baral says that it is becoming challenging to end the quotas in appointments for years. "Last week, we appointed 6 co-examination controllers from the number one," he said. I am not the only one to make decisions in the executive council. There is a team of 6 people,' he said, 'the team decides ' Trivi has convened a policy meeting on Thursday. One of the recommended professors complained that the discussion in the previous meeting was about how to distribute posts rather than what policy to pass. There has been a lot of pressure to share. If the first number is appointed, the method will be established," he said, "otherwise, the university will fall into the old cycle of division again." Deans are members of the assembly. But due to lack of appointment, there is a situation where the agents have to participate.
