Govt starts process to hire VCs for 13 varsities
Bhubaneswar: Govt on Wednesday invited applications for the appointment of vice-chancellors of 13 state universities. The universities were facing difficulty in making important policy decisions and conducting faculty recruitment due to the lack of permanent VCs and faculty members, which the TOI had highlighted in a series of reports.
The higher education department has invited applications from eligible applicants for VCs of 13 state public universities — Utkal University and Rama Devi Women's University, Bhubaneswar, Ravenshaw University and Madhusudan Law University, Cuttack, Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanjadeo University, Baripada, Gangadhar Meher University, Sambalpur, Fakir Mohan University, Balasore, Khallikote Unitary University, Berhampur, Shree Jagannath Sanskrit University, Puri, Rajendra University in Balangir, Dharanidhar University in Keonjhar, Vikram Dev University, Jeypore, and Maa Manikeshwari University, Kalahandi.
VC appointment is necessary to start the process for the recruitment of faculty members. Teaching and research work have been affected due to the lack of faculty members.
Candidates must submit their applications by July 5. Applications are invited from eligible applicants below 66 years of age on Dec 1, 2025, for the VC posts. "Applicants intending to apply for more than one university must submit a single application clearly indicating their order of preference, with the most preferred university listed first," read the official notification.
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The notification stated the order of preference must also be clearly specified in the Higher Education Information Management System (HIMS) module. Shortlisted candidates will be called for an interview before a three-member selection committee. The venue and schedule will be communicated in due course, higher education secretary Aravind Agrawal said in the notification.
Official sources said the interview dates will be fixed for different universities on different dates, and applicants are required to attend the interview for each university separately.
The 2020 amendment Act said all teachers of a university would be appointed through Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC). However, the Odisha Universities Amendment Act, 2024, clearly states a selection committee will be formed to recruit faculty members by following UGC guidelines. The committee will be chaired by the vice-chancellor of the university or his/her nominee.
The faculty selection committee will include an academic not below the rank of a professor nominated by the chancellor. It will have three subject experts selected by the VC from a panel of names recommended by the syndicate. Other members will include the dean of faculty or head of the department, along with an academic from ST/SC/OBC/women/minority/PWD as per the candidate present, to be nominated by the VC.
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