Orissa High Court Invokes Global Philosophers to Remind Government: Universities Not Your Departments
Jagriti Rai | 25 May 2026 | The Indian Express
Drawing from the words of philosophers Wilhelm von Humboldt and Karl Jaspers, and quoting the reports of the S Radhakrishnan Commission and the Kothari Commission, the Orissa High Court has ruled that the state government cannot treat universities as its departments.
Dealing with the plea of a junior assistant seeking regularisation of his service at the university, a division bench of Justices Krishna S Dixit and Chittaranjan Dash set aside the government order and upheld the single bench’s order granting regularisation…