Raj Bhavan-West Bengal Secretariat dispute will reach the court?
Kolkata (IANS) | The tussle between the Raj Bhawan and the state secretariat in West Bengal is likely to head towards a legal tussle as the state education department is seeking legal advice to find a way around the recent show cause notices issued by the governor’s office to the vice-chancellors of six state universities. Is. According to state education minister Bratya Basu, though the government wanted to hold talks with the governor, the governor seemed inclined to take decisions on his own. With regard to show-cause notices to vice-chancellors, we have to see whether they have the authority to issue such notices, he added. We are first consulting legal experts to know whether such notices are valid or illegal.
The Raj Bhavan had issued a notice on May 24 to the vice chancellors of six state universities – Kazi Nazrul University, Sidho-Kanho-Birsa University, Bidhan Chandra Agricultural University, West Bengal State University, Kalyani University and Burdwan University. It said the universities were “ignoring” the governor’s direction to submit weekly reports on matters to the Raj Bhavan.
Earlier on April 4, the Raj Bhavan had directed the Vice Chancellors of all state universities to send a weekly report to the Raj Bhavan, in which the Vice Chancellors were also asked to take prior consent from the Raj Bhavan in all financial matters.
However, the Office of the Special Secretary to the Governor sent a reminder to the V-CS on May 22 after none of the universities sent the weekly report.
After not getting any response, Raj Bhavan has now issued show cause notices to the Vice Chancellors of these six universities.
The governor is the chancellor of all state universities. The state government was opposing the governor’s decision to ask for a weekly report from the very beginning. Now that the state government is mulling legal options against the show cause notice, the Raj Bhavan-state secretariat relations seem to have taken a turn for the worse.
–IANS
