The Berhampur University has cancelled the appointment of a lecturer of its Odia PG Department apprehending court action.
According to information, the university had issued advertisement in newspapers in April 2015 for different teaching positions such as lecturers and Readers for its various PG Departments for which interviews were conducted in phases from January 2016. Accordingly, university started issuing appointment orders to the selected candidates.
Significantly, right from the day one of the appointment process started, several deserving and meritorious candidates, who were reportedly ignored, filed petitions before the Chancellor’s office while some others approached courts seeking justice alleging unfair practices.
Sources said the interview for the post of lecturer for the Odia Department was held on January 20. But, an applicant namely Ashok Kumar Panda was not called for. Panda filed a writ petition in the High Court he had been deprived of facing the interview by university authorities. The HC directed the university authorities not to issue appointment orders to selected candidates till next hearing on February 11. Again on February 11, the HC passed an interim order keeping its stay order enforceable till March 4.
Surprisingly, the authorities issued an appointment letter to one Manoranjan Bisoyi as Odia lecturer on February 17 as per the recommendations of the Syndicate on the sheer pretext that the university did not receive the court order. Bisoyi joined continued in job till Friday.
According to information, the university received a letter from the HC on Thursday in which the appointment order of the concerned lecturer ignoring the Court order was questioned. Thereafter, Vice-Chancellor Prof Deepak Kumar Behera convened an emergency meeting of the University Syndicate and cancelled Bisoyi’s appointment.
This has become a subject of discussion in the intellectual levels. Many more irregularities would come to limelight in coming days ahead if all the appointments are thoroughly reviewed and probed, said an academician.