JU Registrar’s Appointment ‘Illegal’: Faculty, Officials Write To Guv thekashmirmonitor.net

The faculty members and officials of the University of Jammu (JU) have written to Governor Satya Pal Malik opposing the recent decision of appointing Prof. R. K. Ganjoo as the varsity’s Registrar. On Friday, Prof. Ganjoo was given the charge of the Registrarship of the University of Jammu. In a letter written to Governor Malik a day later, the faculty members and officials of the university have claimed that Prof. Ganjoo was “ineligible” for the post. “The Date of birth of Prof.R. K. Ganjoo is 11.4.1959 and the retirement age of officers at the University of Jammu is 60 years. He is as such ineligible to hold any substantive administrative position in the University,”.

The letter adds that Prof Ganjoohas been declared “ineligible by the Committee constituted to determine the eligibility of candidates applying for the position of Registrar/Controller/DCD on the basis of his age which is on display on the University website.” The order, the letter adds, has “generated shock waves among the teaching fraternity and officer cadre of the University not only because of this order being in contravention of the statutes but also due to the kind of negative reputation that Prof. Ganjoo carries.”