Two from UoM — Prof. D.S. Guru, Prof. G. Venkatesh Kumar and Dr. Sharath Ananthamurthy from Hyderabad
Mysore/Mysuru: The search panel formed by the State Government for the appointment of a new Vice-Chancellor for University of Mysore (UoM) has recommended three names for the coveted post.
The panel headed by Prof. M.S. Shivakumar, a former VC of Bengaluru’s CMR University, is learnt to have recommended the names of Prof. D.S. Guru, Head of the Department of Computer Science, UoM, Prof. G. Venkatesh Kumar, Head of the Department of Psychology, UoM and Dr. Sharath Ananthamurthy, a Physics faculty of the University of Hyderabad, who had previously served at Bangalore University.
It may be mentioned here that the name of Dr. Sharath Ananthamurthy had been shortlisted to head the UoM in 2017 but missed out. Besides his academic achievements, Prof. Sharath is the son of Jnanpith awardee U.R. Ananthamurthy. Sharath had taught in the UoM for a couple of years from 1996.
U.R. Ananthamurthy was both a student and a teacher at the English Department of Mysore University, before he travelled to the United Kingdom for higher studies.
Following the completion of the four-year tenure of Prof. G. Hemantha Kumar as VC on Nov. 15, Prof. H. Rajashekhar has been serving as the Acting Vice-Chancellor of UoM.
The Government had invited applications for the post, following which 71 academicians, including Prof. H. Rajashekhar, Prof. G. Venkatesh Kumar, Prof. D.S. Guru, Prof. Sharath Ananthamurthy, Prof. H.T. Basavarajappa, Prof. H.S. Bhojya Naika, Prof. M. Chandrasekhar, Prof. K. Channakeshavulu and Prof. M. Dhananjaya had applied.
“The panel headed by Prof. M.S. Shivakumar, a former VC of Bengaluru’s CMR University, is learnt to have recommended the names of Prof. D.S. Guru, Head of the Department of Computer Science, UoM, Prof. G. Venkatesh Kumar, Head of the Department of Psychology, UoM and Dr. Sharath Ananthamurthy, a Physics faculty of the University of Hyderabad, who had previously served at Bangalore University”
Just look at the panel Chair, a third rate ex-head of a third rate CMR, picks 3 third rate candidates, for choosing one of them to head the third rate UOM.
i TAKE A BET. it will be Sharath Ananthamurthy, the son of that loudmouth father, who accused Brahmins, said he rejected his caste, but stipulated that his son , of a Christian mother wears a sacred thread like a Brahims and light his funeral pyre among Vedic chants! Hypocrite.
Professor Venkatesh Kumar also certified the thesis of a non-UOM US student who had plagiarised content. More importantly, he has been accused of sexually assaulting a student!
Sir, Academics Matters…
Was not Sarath Ananthamurthy considered a few years ago and was rejected.
Here, he crops up again.
What this dreadful casteism-infested UOM needs is really an outsider, some one even not necessarily a professor-most of them seem to be third rate, but an efficient administrator.
Only best can be selected for VC. Selection comity no idea.
What a recommendation? Guru is only 52 years old. There are nearly 70 candidates who have crossed 60 years barring a few, who were not recommended. More over, what administration Guru is having except sitting in front of a computer. Guru could not even run the Out-reach programme and Guru resigned. Now coming to Venkatesh Kumar, he does not have any administrative experience, except a born fighter, but some black marks are strongly against him, which is a negative point. Look at Sharath Ananth Murthy (Bang uni & Univ of Hyd), who silently made it to the list for second time in succession. Sharath does not have real credentials to become a VC, except his dad was a wellknown figure in the field of literature and was also a VC of MG Univ, Kerala. Funniest recommendation is that of Guru’s, who is still having ten years of service in the Univ of Mysore.
I must congratulate the Govt of Karnataka for appointing Rajashekhar as in-charge VC of UOM, although Rajashekhar is having glaring evidences of mismanagement in KSET exams, and also his candidature was rejected in the list of candidates for the coveted post of VC of UOM. I believe Rajashekhar has appealed to the Hon’ble High-court for rejecting his candidature.
Bottom-line is, academic qualifications, administrative experience, honesty, integrity, etc will never help for any one to become Vice-chancellor of any University in this country. What matters is, MONEY, INFLUENCE & CASTE (MIC).
I onceagain congratulate the UGC, GOK & Pratap Simha for shifting KSET to KEA. I don’t understand why Prathap Simha was keeping mum all these years regading this, which he should have done several years ago, thereby KSET results would have been still minimised.
Another pathetic situation in Manasagangotri PG Campus is the starting of Engineering college, when there were several engineering colleges in Mysuru including a closeby SJCE. Surprisingly, there are no permanent faculty in the engineering college, which is also called as the White House of PG campus.
My sincere request to the GOK/KEA is to remove OMR sheets in any upcoming examination, otherwise Raktha Beejasuraru will creep up, which nobody can stop in this country. Conduct on-line exam like CSIR !!
Finally God only should save Mysore University from all dirty games!!
What a recommendation? Guru is only 52 years old. There are nearly 70 candidates who have crossed 60 years barring a few, who were not recommended. More over, what administration Guru is having except sitting in front of a computer. Guru could not even run the Out-reach programme and Guru resigned. Now coming to Venkatesh Kumar, he does not have any administrative experience, except a born fighter, but some black marks are strongly against him, which is a negative point. Look at Sharath Ananth Murthy (Bang uni & Univ of Hyd), who silently made it to the list for second time in succession. Sharath does not have real credentials to become a VC, except his dad was a wellknown figure in the field of literature and was also a VC of MG Univ, Kerala. Funniest recommendation is that of Guru’s, who is still having ten years of service in the Univ of Mysore.
I must congratulate the Govt of Karnataka for appointing Rajashekhar as in-charge VC of UOM, although Rajashekhar is having glaring evidences of mismanagement in KSET exams, and also his candidature was rejected in the list of candidates for the coveted post of VC of UOM. I believe Rajashekhar has appealed to the Hon’ble High-court for rejecting his candidature.
Bottom-line is, academic qualifications, administrative experience, honesty, integrity, etc will never help for any one to become Vice-chancellor of any University in this country. What matters is, MONEY, INFLUENCE & CASTE (MIC).
I onceagain congratulate the UGC, GOK & Pratap Simha for shifting KSET to KEA. I don’t understand why Prathap Simha was keeping mum all these years regading this, which he should have done several years ago, thereby KSET results would have been still minimised.
Another pathetic situation in Manasagangotri PG Campus is the starting of Engineering college, when there were several engineering colleges in Mysuru including a closeby SJCE. Surprisingly, there are no permanent faculty in the engineering college, which is also called as the White House of PG campus.
My sincere request to the GOK/KEA is to remove OMR sheets in any upcoming examination, otherwise Raktha Beejasuraru will creep up, which nobody can stop in this country. Conduct on-line exam like CSIR !!
Finally God only should save Mysore University from all dirty games!!
Hello Prof Govinda
First, the university engineering college issue. When Shrimali was the VC, in the late 1960s,he selected the oldest and the most reputed engineering college in Mysore at that time, the NIE, to be the university engineering college. Arrangements progressed and before the Monday, which was fixed as the take over of NIE as the eUniversity college, Gowdas and Lingayats who were the professors and the staff in Managangothri , accused Shrimali as promoting a Brahmin engineering college and scuppered its take over in that week end. This institution with its excellent alumnus base, could have become the university engineering college, today, righting what was wrong then.
Now,, and second, I agree with you about the pathetic short-listing of the three candidates. Who selected them? Prof MS Shivakumar, who chaired the VC Selection Panel. His credentials: for a time the principal of NIE, who achieved NOTHING there then became the registrar of the VTU, the third rate university head quartered at Belgaum, and then finally, the VC of CMR university-a private Reddys-controlled university. He was was chosen because the government knew that he can be manipulated.
For the VC Selection Panel Chair:
a) There is some one an alumnus of this University, a brilliant engineering student in his days, who knows what the quality of education means, and who could have been persuaded as the VC Panel Chair- He is, Narayana Murthy, the INFOSYS co-founder. A well informed and merit-promoting proponent, as himself a brilliant student
b) Alternatively, there is Prof Venkat Rangan, a Mysorean , who is the VC of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kerala, a , a VC of 20 years experience, who a brilliant computer scientist and a former professor in the UCSD, U of Berkeley alumnus, and who made this Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, a one of the top universities in India.,
The above two as VC Selection Panel Chair, would not have let this farce to happen.
This was the University established by Nalwadi Wadiyar, and Sir MV, and had VCs such as Brajendranath Seal, and Prof KM Panikkar ( who was reportedly poisoned by interested parties!), warped and degenerated into a third rate casteism and nepotism -infested university, presided by then VC Jawaregowda. His son who became the VC briefly, years later, was a lackey selected for who he was, had to go because of shall we say, his inabilities.
In Western countries, the heads of universities are selected by a search committee,, who meet the core criteria of academic excellence and administration at he highest level, met by provosts or Deputy VC for years.
I echo, your anxiety and concern. But, blame the government.
With about 1000 universities in India, still the Indian students apply to go abroad, even for their undergraduate degrees. I do not blame them or their parents. Indian universities have become the citadel of corruption, casteism and nepotism. This situation has crept into all the central universities like the IITs and the IISC.
In the end, as once the alumnus of this University , decades ago, I feel that the UOM Karma has mandated it to be the mediocre university.
The VC Panel Chair and the 3 candidates, this Panel has chosen, demonstrate this Karma so vividly!
Hey Posters
The UOM reached a point of no return, and no redemption decades ago.
It si a massive cesspit of corruption, casteism and nepotism. No different from any other university in this country,
Best to laugh at it and move on.
I must congratulate all the people who are involved in the selection of VC to UOM.
A 52 yrs old Guru (computer) recommended by a 51 yrs old Reddy (Kashmir-member), inspite of more than 70 Professors more than 60 yrs old.
Venkatesh Kumar recommended inspite of several black marks against him including sexual harassment and plagiarism.
Sharath recommended again and again.
Rajashekhar gone to the high-court regarding his eligibility, although he is involved in large scale malpractice in KSET.
Surprisingly Rajashekhar is incharge VC of UOM, although there is an enquiry against him by the Govt of Karnataka.
therefore, His Excellency, the Chancellor and Governor should remove Rajashekhar from incharge VC immediately.
All bad things happening in Univ of Mysore.
Some unknown hand is responsible for all these happenings.
I request the GOK to punish the guilty severely.
Hello Kallegowda
It appears that there is a blunder committed here, from what you are saying.
The mistake has been not to pick the panel chair from outside the state, a VC of a reputable university or the director of an IIT, and to include just 3 panel members from the IITs, who can recognise merit. But the Government seemed wanted their candidates, who are the ones short-listed, and to achieve this, they selected the panel chair who will listen to them, as well as the panel members.
The entire process stinks, like the UOM , ITSELF!!