TISS registrar issues notice appointing himself head of administration

Anil Sutar, the officiating registrar of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, on Tuesday issued an order appointing himself as professor and head of administration of the institute, The Hindu reported.

In the order, Sutar also said that Narendra Mishra would be taking over the office of the officiating registrar. He added that Mishra would be directly reporting to him, Pro Vice Chancellor Shankar Das and Vice Chancellor Manoj Kumar Tiwari.

Following this, an unidentified faculty member told The Hindu that this was a case of a person leaving office and initiating an order in his interest.

“This is a case of Anil Sutar making himself more powerful,” the faculty member said. “This is anarchic. No university as such has a professor heading the office of the registrar.”

The announcement on Tuesday came a day after Sutar issued another order banning the student organisation Progressive Students’ Forum from campus. The notice claimed that the forum was “defaming” the institute and “creating divisions” among students and faculty.

The forum is affiliated with the Students Federation of India, the student wing of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).

The institute prohibited members of the forum from conducting or participating in events on campus, warning that such steps would be met with “immediate intervention and consequences”.

It said: “Any student or...

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