A bill was passed in the West Bengal assembly on Thursday to choose Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as its chancellor, replaceing Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar. The Aliah University (Amendment) Bill, 2022 additionally looked to supplant the posts of Reader and Lecturer with those of Associate Professor and Assistant Professor.
Presenting the Bill, Minority Affairs Minister Md Ghulam Rabbani expressed that since the has needs to discharge specific constitutional duties reasonably and unbiasedly, he ought not burdened with such a position, chancellor.
Addingly he said that In such a circumstance, the chief Minister is the fittest individual to be the new chancellor of the college, which confers higher educational studies in different streams and has three spwarling campuses in the city, he said. Protesting the Bill, BJP MLAs said that making the chief minister the chancellor of the college will politicize its current circumstance and negatively affect the learning evnirnoment of the students.
The Aliah University(Amendment) Bill, 2022 was then passed through a voice vote.
The West Bengal government has moved a various bills during the ongoing monsoon session of the assembly, which includes superseding the Chief Minister as the chancellor of state-run Universities. Furthermore, it likewise moved a bill to supplant the Governor with Education minister as the Visitor of private universities in the state. Every one of the bills were passed.
Across India, the Governor of state is charged with the duties of the Chancellor for State Universites. Now that the Governor is relieved as Chacellor of Unversities in the west Bengal, it will be interessting to see if similar trend will be followed by other states as well.