Senior educationists have condemned the alleged vindictive stance of Governor Arif Mohammed Khan towards universities in Kerala. The sweeping dismissals of Vice-Chancellors has paralysed the universities that were on the track of the ongoing reforms in the higher education sector.
The joint statement issued by a group of eminent academics including K.N. Panikkar, Romila Thapar, Irfan Habib and Prabhat Patnaik took a dim view of the dismissals of the Vice-Chancellors of Calicut University and the Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit by Mr. Khan in his capacity as the Chancellor of the universities.
As a result of the move, all leading universities in Kerala have been deprived of Vice-Chancellors, they lamented.
