Overview
- The Assembly passed the amendment during a one-day special session on Thursday, giving the chancellor, in consultation with the state government, the power to transfer teaching and non-teaching staff between state universities.
- The new provision, added as Section 14A to the 2017 Act, allows transfers on grounds of ‘administrative necessity’ and covers both faculty and support employees.
- The government says the move supports a ‘one state, one education’ plan to deploy experienced teachers to newer universities and that transferred staff will keep seniority, service benefits and receive a transfer grant and moving-cost reimbursement.
- Teachers’ associations, academics and opposition parties say the law threatens university autonomy, risks selective targeting of dissenting staff and could disrupt ongoing research and PhD supervision, with opposition MLAs staging walkouts during the vote.
- The bill now awaits the governor’s assent and the publication of detailed rules that will define who can be moved and how transfers will work, and those missing details make legal challenges and campus-level resistance likely.