MUSU's request for meeting with Chancellor denied
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, May 02 2009:
The Chancellor of Manipur University, Prof PN Srivastava has refuses to accept 'Manipur University Students' Union (MUSU)' and said that as a Chancellor 'he will not accept MUSU' citing that it is not under a Statute.
Speaking to journalists at Hotel Imphal yesterday, the Chancellor of Manipur University, who is also the Chairman of the National Board of Accreditation, Prof PN Srivastava said that that MUSU is not a constitutional one while adding that it is 'null and void'.
Prof PN Srivastava said that the university has to bring a Statute and the election should be conducted according to the statute.
"If some say I'm elected, as a Chancellor I cannot accept it," he said while refusing to append recognition for the last 3 years when MU was upgraded to a Central University.
The Chancellor asserts a students' union of any university should come under a Statute.
He adds that he had requested the Vice Chancellor of the University to bring the 'MUSU' under the Statutes.
"The University is going to bring it in Statutes.
(It) Doesn't matter if the (Students') union is not there for some time.
There are a number of universities without unions," Prof PN Srivastava explicitly says.
Admitting that the Unions are necessary as they are a training ground to become politicians, Prof Srivastava however said that certain norms must be followed.
"If there are unions it is OK and if the unions are not there it does not matter," he articulates.
He further adds "If you don't follow the norms there will be no union" .
"Even if the VC accepts it (the union), I will not accept it," the Chancellor candidly asserts when the VC, who was present in the press meet, was asked whether he would recognise the Union.
Meanwhile, the Chancellor also disclosed that he refused to grant audience when some students wanted meeting him as 'elected representatives of the Union' though he wants to meet them as students of the university.
He said at the moment the union is not according to the statutes, and as a Chancellor and custodian of statutes he cannot meet them.
Further, Chancellor Prof PN Srivastava said that the feasibility of opening of new courses would be identified and introduced.
He said there will be no financial dearth for this.
Prof Srivastava also assures that the university will be made a residential institute in its entirety.