{"id":14484,"date":"2026-05-09T07:22:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/2026\/05\/09\/rn-ravi-mamata-banerjee-row-over-vcs-supreme-court-clears-final-names-for-3-west-bengal-universities\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T07:22:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:22:05","slug":"rn-ravi-mamata-banerjee-row-over-vcs-supreme-court-clears-final-names-for-3-west-bengal-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/?p=14484","title":{"rendered":"RN Ravi\u2013Mamata Banerjee row over VCs: Supreme Court clears final names for 3 West Bengal universities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130972494,imgsize-43428,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/130972494.jpg\" alt=\"RN Ravi\u2013Mamata Banerjee row over VCs: Supreme Court clears final names for 3 West Bengal universities\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Supreme Court on Friday, closed the long-running tussle between governor R N Ravi and former chief minister Mamta Banerjee over appointment of Vice Chancellors in universities across West Bengal, bringing an end to the case that had continued for years.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>The court approved the recommended candidates for the remaining three universities and directed that their appointments be completed after approval from the governor Ravi. With this, the process of appointing Vice Chancellors in all 36 state universities has now been completed.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>The matter had reached the Supreme Court after a deadlock emerged between the West Bengal government led by Banerjee and the governor, who also serves as Chancellor of state universities. <!-- -->To resolve the issue, the court had earlier formed a search-cum-selection committee headed by former chief justice of India UU Lalit.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"9\"\/>Based on the committee\u2019s recommendations, Vice Chancellors were appointed in phases over the past several months. On Friday, the bench of chief justice Surya Kant and justice Joymalya Bagchi formally closed the case.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/>The three universities for which appointments were still pending were Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, University of North Bengal and Netaji Subhas Open University.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/>The court directed the West Bengal government to place the approved names before governor R N Ravifor further action.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/education\/news\/rn-ravimamata-banerjee-row-over-vcs-supreme-court-clears-final-names-for-3-west-bengal-universities\/articleshow\/130972494.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Friday, closed the long-running tussle between governor R N Ravi and former chief minister Mamta Banerjee over appointment of Vice Chancellors in universities across West Bengal, bringing an end to the case that had continued for years.The court approved the recommended candidates for the remaining three universities and directed that their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}