5 male vice chancellors came and went. But husband-wife stayed until this VC said no
inam ul rehman Breaking 21-year-old institutional monopoly As July 31, 2026, approached, there was only one concern for the employees of the Educational Multimedia Research Centre ( EMRC ): would we see a new director, or would the old regime continue. We went home in a conundrum. The University of Kashmir didn’t issue any notice about who will take charge of our centre. On August 03, as we entered our office premises, rumour was that Prof Syed Muzzaffar Andrabi, dean engineering college, had been nominated as the new director. We waited throughout Monday to receive him but neither did he come, nor was the order issued. My colleagues’ shoulders drooped and they became apprehensive that the old regime had the power to rescind any order of the University! But finally in the afternoon, the University issued an order, and immediately employees began to distribute sweets. We were delirious but it seemed newspapers and online portals were even more elated to see the change as t...