The resignation of Professor Kesharjung Baral, Vice-Chancellor of Tribhuvan University (Trivi) has been accepted. The Prime Minister's Secretariat has informed that Prime Minister and University Chancellor KP Sharma Oli has accepted Vice Chancellor Baral's resignation on Thursday.

Baral's resignation was accepted 12 days after submitting his resignation. A close professor says that Baral was forced to resign due to the interference of the Prime Minister and non-cooperation of the government. Baral said that he resigned due to lack of working environment and said that he will reveal the detailed reason after the decision of resignation. 

Baral had been saying since his appointment that he would leave the post if there was an environment where he could not work because he was not a vice-chancellor. He was committed to implement the plan and thinking paper submitted to the government to become the vice-chancellor.

Experts comment that the vice-chancellor was forced to resign due to the interference and non-cooperation of Prime Minister Oli as well as the ruling UML and its fraternal organizations. However, Baral submitted his resignation letter to the Chancellor's office on Chait 15 through the secretariat staff citing health reasons. The Office of the Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers has said that there is no decision on accepting/rejecting the resignation.

There is a provision in the University Act that if there is no vice chancellor, the rector can be given the acting responsibility for 3 months and during that period, a recommendation committee can be formed and the process of selecting and appointing the vice chancellor can be started. The professors say that as none of these processes are initiated, the university is without leadership and there is academic and administrative confusion.