Appoint CET principal soon: HC

CUTTACK: Controversy seems to dog the College of Engineering and Technology, Bhubaneswar, over nonappointment of a Principal-Director as per the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) criteria.Despite the instructions of the apex body governing technical institutions in the country as well as successive orders issued by the Orissa High Court, the authorities o f the State Government-run institute have failed to seat a principal, who possessed necessary qualifications and experience.And taking a stern note of the failure, the HC has again directed for appointment of a suitable person as principal. The appointment should be made “as expeditiously as possible in two months, latest by July,” the single judge bench of Justice AS Naidu ruled.The matter had been raised in the court through a writ petition filed by Reader in the college Niranjan Sutar last year. The erstwhile principal Prof SK Mishra was not eligible as he did not belong to the relevant discipline, he had alleged.Though the Court had ordered for action in the direction, he had been granted an extension by the authorities. With the court taking note again and issuing a contempt notice in December last year, Mishra’s extension was withdrawn and an in-charge principal in the form of Reader in Chemistry B.B. Patra was seated.The principal should be a Professor having 15 years experience of his relevant discipline.
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Newindpress.com; Wednesday March 26 2008 09:16 IST