“Education in Telangana will be free from KG to PG,” declared KCR before the elections. Ironically for a State with such a noble initiative, except for Satavahana University in Karimnagar, all the other Universities in Telangana are without a vice-chancellor.
In April, the term of the vice-chancellor of Satavahana University will expire making Telangana eligible for the ‘Limca Book of Records’ as the only State without vice-chancellors for its universities.
The delay in appointing vice-chancellors is because KCR is planning a new Act that will put the power of appointment of vice-chancellors in his hands instead of the governor.
KCR also wants to change the eligibility rules whereby bureaucrats can be appointed as vice-chancellors so that Universities too can get to experience the all too familiar culture of red-tape, file-work and inordinate delays.
