{"id":196,"date":"2024-04-15T11:03:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T05:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=196"},"modified":"2024-04-15T11:03:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T05:18:01","slug":"academics-laud-adoption-of-meritocracy-in-appointment-of-university-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/academics-laud-adoption-of-meritocracy-in-appointment-of-university-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Academics laud adoption of meritocracy in appointment of university officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu :\u00a0 University professors and academics have expressed happiness over the adoption of meritocracy in regard to the appointment of vice-chancellor, rector and registrar at Tribhuvan University.<\/p>\n<p>At a meeting with Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal &#8216;Prachanda&#8217; at Baluwatar this morning, the professors and academics collectively extended gratefulness to the PM for the adoption of meritocracy.<\/p>\n<p>The appointment of university officials through open competition has imparted a positive message in enhancing the image of academia, they said.<\/p>\n<p>On the occasion, PM Dahal said he was serious about reforming the university and education sector and the concept of meritocracy would be adopted more firmly in rest of the areas. &#8220;There is no alternative to meritocracy for university reforms. It has imparted a far and wide message in academic field.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Dahal stressed the need for healthy competition in all sectors to lay a new foundation for good governance, development and prosperity in the country.<br \/>\n&#8220;Everyone has the freedom to join the party. But now let&#8217;s not look the party. Those who are competent and honest with integrity should be provided opportunity on merit. This will only create a new situation in the country.&#8221; the PM noted.<\/p>\n<p>Noted academician Kedar Bhakta Mathema, on behalf of the academics, said that the appointment of office-bearers through open competition in the university was itself important due to PM Dahal&#8217;s stance.<\/p>\n<p>This is a good example in itself and this initiates a new legacy, he said, adding &#8220;We believe that this will greatly improve the quality of higher education and bring positive results.&#8221;<br \/>\nA group of academic comprising Dr Gaurishanker Lal Das, Dr Govinda Pokharel, Dr Sanduk Ruit, Dr Arjun Karki, Dr JP Agrawal, Dr Nareshman Bajracharya and Dr Aseem Dhakal reached PM&#8217;s official residence to thank PM Dahal for the initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu :\u00a0 University professors and academics have expressed happiness over the adoption of meritocracy in regard to the appointment of vice-chancellor, rector and registrar at Tribhuvan University. At a meeting with Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal &#8216;Prachanda&#8217; at Baluwatar this morning, the professors and academics collectively extended gratefulness to the PM for the adoption of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}