Bengal Govt's Move to Mandate Inter-University Staff Transfers Intends to Create an Environment of Threat
Ishita Mukherjee | 17 September 2026 | The Wire
The West Bengal government has passed a bill in a special session of the assembly, concerning the inter-university transfer of faculty, officers and other staff of state-aided universities and the control of provident fund of employees by the government.
The Universities and Colleges (Administration & Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026, came after an amendment of an earlier Bill related to the transfer of faculties of undergraduate colleges which was passed in 2017. This was just extended to include post graduate faculties who are also in charge of research and supervision of doctoral and post-doctoral theses of students in various streams of knowledge. The law met a strong resistance from faculty members’ associations in state-aided universities as well as from research scholars.