IT News
Imphal, Aug 6:
The Manipur University of Culture (MUC) which was heralded as the platform to showcase the manipuri culture and tradition to the rest of the world in all its glory is now heading towards doom and chaos and the situation is getting grimmer with each passing day. A press release issued by the Democratic Students’ Alliance of Manipur (DESAM) stressed that the University which was promulgated by the Manipur University of Culture (MUC) Act 2015 and which started functioning in 2016 has not been able to function as a full-fledged University with proper infrastructure whether of human resources or physical infrastructure nor the required faculty despite being in operation for the last five years. There have not been any concrete steps or even arrangements to appoint a regular VC, Registrar, Examination controller, Finance Officer etc. but there has been regular instances of appointing guest faculties without proper recruitment process, the release added. According to the statement, due to the failure of the MUC to maintain the proper infrastructures and required resources, the UGC has considered withdrawing the recognition granted to the MUC in 2019, and there still is the danger of the same coming true in the future. Expressing suspicions of wrongdoings in the recruitment process for filling up the vacant posts, the statement point out that a notification for appointment of the posts of VC and Registrar was issued on May 30 of 2019, and in contradiction to the same notification, another notification was issued for appointment of VC and Registrar in 2020 by an Executive Council even after recruitment process started after the first notification. Citing various other irregularities in functioning of the MUC, the students’ body questioned the fate of the students of this institute and appealed for bringing the institute to its proper ways and declared that DESAM will henceforth take a closer look at the functioning of the MUC.
