UNIVERSITY VC IS NOT CENTRAL POST & ARTICLE 311
Shubham Budhiraja [1] There was agitation against the vice-chancellor (VC) of Manipur university by the teachers, students etc. and fact finding committee cum inquiry committee constituted who decided against the VC and thereafter University resolved to remove the VC from its post and that removal was challenged by VC in Writ Petition contending that Inquiry committee should have been as per Article 311 but HC Division bench refused it by holding that VC are not central post even though its employment is recommended by CG & the university is funded by the CG. These aspects will not make him as central post and full fledge enquiry safeguard under Article 311 is not available to him. (I) Manipur University is a legal entity separate from the Union. Merely because Manipur University is financed by or there is an element of control with the Central Government, it cannot be said that the employees of Manipur University hold a ‘civil...