Ranchi University (RU) employees can now share their woes and joys without any fear with the administration at the cradle’s deliberative assembly known as Senate meet. This much awaited desire is fulfilled with the election of 11 teaching and one non-teaching representatives for Senate after a span of 15 and 35 years respectively.
It covers teachers and non-teaching representing university’s headquarter with allied offices, post graduate departments, affiliated colleges and constituent colleges. The electoral process commenced on October 3 and winded up yesterday with large participation of staffs from every corner of RU. A source informed that the scheduled senate this December will be worth observing as teachers and non-teaching staffs have got their messengers in a democratic manner.
“Till date, the teachers and non-teaching employees in this senate were referred by some or other senior university or state government officer. But, this election has given the RU fraternity a ray of hope to see justified issues related to the career of a university staff,” the source said. Affiliated Colleges have RP Gope as their main teacher representative. Whereas, Constituent Colleges have Sudha Upadhyay, Jitbahan Baraik, Raj Kumar Sharma, Bishwarup Mukherjee, Anil Kumar Delta, Kanjiv lochan and Asunta Tigga as their representatives. Representating the one only non-teaching member’s take in this senate, Pawan Ram is leading the front.
Mukund C Mehta and Mithilesh Kumar Singh have been elected on behalf of the two post graduate departments involving Faculty of Science and Commerce on side and Faculty of Social Science and Humanities on the other part. Notably, the last the election for senate teacher representative was last held in 1998 whereas for senate non-teaching staff it was held in 1981. University was all on toes for this election process. Special trainings were organized for polling and presiding officers prior to the elections.