‘Explain Why Teacher Appointments Made Sans Ads’

Hyderabad: Justice Nooty Ramamohana Rao of the AP High Court on Wednesday directed University of Hyderabad (UoH) authorities to explain as to why they were making appointments to various teaching posts without issuing any advertisement.
   Responding to a petition filed by Senapathy Satyanarayana, a Ph D scholar in Telugu, who charged the authorities with making appointments in a clandestine way, the judge admitted the petition and gave the varsity authorities six weeks’ time to file their counter.
   When counsel for the petitioner told the court that the authorities have been acting in a manner that violates both the Constitution and the very University of Hyderabad Act itself, Justice Ramamohana Rao sought to know from the counsel for the varsity as to why the university was taking such unilateral decisions.
   “You are behaving like a dictator and doing things in a whimsical manner rather than following the statute. Shall I stay the whole process?”, the judge asked. The counsel for the varsity urged the court not to impose any stay and assured that he would come back with a counter soon.
   In fact, Senapathy’s repeated pleas for transparency in recruitments and to implement OBC reservations in the exercise in accordance with the Union government policy have been going unheard by the university authorities. “The varsity gets its power from the Centre and the first thing it does after getting the power is to ignore the directives of the Centre itself,’’ Senapathy said.
   According to him, at every opportune time, the authorities disturb the roster that provides reservations and devise a temporary route to do so. “They do not advertise and instead make temporary appointments and accord a regular scale to the selected candidates,’’ he said. The irony is that the university calls these illegal entrants as guest lecturers, he said pointing out the fact that guest lecturers are supposed to be drawn from eminents in various fields.
   Senapathy also listed out various other recruitments made in the varsity and urged the court to declare them as illegal apart from stalling further recruitments.