Members of the Legislative Assembly, cutting across party lines, on Wednesday deplored corruption and malpractices in the recruitment of Vice-Chancellors and teaching and non-teaching faculty members in universities run by the State government.
Speaking on the Karnataka State Universities (Amendment) Bill, 2022, which proposed to set up eight new State universities in district headquarters, senior member Krishna Byre Gowda (Congress) mentioned irregularities and scams in the recruitment of Vice-Chancellors and faculty members and in promotions.
He said recruitments had been made without forming selection committees. Ineligible candidates and unqualified candidates who had not passed NET and SET, without Ph.D. and research experience had been recruited. Many faculty members had been promoted as professors violating UGC norms, the State University Act, and government rules and regulations, he said.
