As per the announcement made earlier by VC Professor Ramesh Sharan, student union election process has begun in the colleges and university department of Vinoba Bhave Unviersity with the publication of voters list. Earlier, there was a confusion that whether the students who had just appeared in semester II exam will be the voter or not but after taking legal opinion the university administration has cleared that this time only the students of Semester I and Semester V will be the voters in colleges.
Objections regarding voters list can be made till 4 pm of December 21 and then the colleges and university departments will finally publish the voter list on December 23. From December 24 to January 01 the university and colleges will remain closed and the actual process of election i.e. filing of nomination paper will take places on January 03.
With the publication of voters list the environment of different colleges and PG departments of VBU has started heating up. This week everyone related with colleges and university felt it clearly that the students are coming in large numbers and they remain roaming in the campus till late evening while in normal days the campuses use to look deserted by 3pm.
Different students union has also increased their activities both at university level and at college level. On one side different unions affiliated to different political parties are searching winnable candidates for different posts in the colleges and on another side they are also meeting with the university administration with their grievances and demands regarding the process. Today some student union officials demanded to keep those teachers, principals, staffs away from the process whose role was suspicious during last election.
On the other hand the university administration has also started taking steps to conduct free and fair election. As per the notification issued by the registrar, Prof. Subodh Kumar Sinha of PG department of Geology has been appointed chief returning officer of this election. Dr. Manjula Sanga of PG Hindi department has been appointed returning officer of PG departments, Prof. SC Sharma of PG Commerce will act as deputy returning officer here.
In colleges the principals/professor in-charges will act as returning officers and as per notification they can appoint deputy returning officer form the teachers of the college as per their choice. For the election process of university level student union, for which polling and counting will take place on 19th January, Dean humanities Dr. AM Siddiquie has been appointed returning officer and Dr. lP Mishra head of PG Chemistry department will act as deputy returning officer.
Registrar Dr. BP Rukhaiyar has directed the principals and heads to issue photo i-cards to all the voters because without I-card no one will be allowed to vote. He had also issued a mail Id suevbu2017@gmail.com for correspondence with the university administration on matters related to the election.