Retired police officer M. Wahab took over as officiating vice-chancellor of Aliah University on Wednesday.
Governor C.V. Ananda Bose, who is also chancellor of Aliah and other state-aided universities, had last week entrusted the retired IPS officer of Kerala cadre with the responsibility of performing the duties of VC of Aliah University.
On July 5, Bose had entrusted a former Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court, Subhro Kamal Mukherjee, with the task of performing the duties of VC of Rabindra Bharati University.
Sources in the Bengal education department said both decisions were taken without consulting the state government.
Calls and text messages from this newspaper to Wahab failed to elicit any response.
None of the 31 state-aided universities in Bengal has a full-term VC. Some are being run by officiating VCs. Aliah did not even have that since March.