HC stays appointment of temporary teachers by MKU

The Madras High Court today stayed the appointment of temporary teachers for various departments in colleges run by Madurai Kamaraj University.
Justice K K Sasidharan of the bench here stayed the appointment of the temporary teachers for whom walk-in interviews were held yesterday.
He was admitting a petition by M Rajarajan, a syndicate member, and Nagarajan, a part-time teacher of physics working for the past nine years on consolidated pay.
Rajarajan submitted the approval of the syndicate had not been sought by Vice-Chancellor of the University Kalyani Mathivanan and she was trying to usurp the powers of the syndicate and appoint temporary teaching staff for extraneous considerations as quickly as possible.

The syndicate members had protested the action of the VC, whose appointment was quashed by the high court recently but stayed by the Supreme Court.
He said notification had called for candidates who could come for a walk-in interview. There was no mention about basic qualification, age limit, communal roster.
Nagarajan said he was working for nine years and he feared he would be sent out if new persons were appointed.
He also sought to quash the notification for appointments when already many were working as part time lecturers, he said.