TISS registrar withdraws notice appointing himself head of administration

A day after Anil Sutar, the officiating registrar of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, appointed himself head of administration of the university, he asked the vice-chancellor to reverse the order, The Hindu reported.

Sutar sent an informal communication to Vice-Chancellor Manoj Kumar Tiwari on Wednesday asking for the earlier order to be cancelled and to issue a new directive appointing Narendra Mishra as the institute’s officiating registrar, the newspaper reported.

“I also pray that I should not be appointed as the Head of Administration,” Sutar was quoted as having requested in his letter. “I will just focus on research and academics and will discharge my duties as professor and Dean, School of Research Methodology and Doctoral Students’ Office.”

In an order issued on Tuesday, Sutar had declared himself the university’s head of administration and said that Mishra would take over the office of the officiating registrar.

Sutar added that Mishra would directly report to him, Pro Vice Chancellor Shankar Das and Tiwari.

Following this, an unidentified faculty member told The Hindu that this was a case of Sutar “making himself more powerful”.

On Wednesday, Sutar forwarded his internal communication with the vice-chancellor to faculty members saying he wanted to “avoid any confusion and misunderstanding”, according to The Hindu.

Sutar’s order on Tuesday had come a day after he issued another directive banning the...

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