Kathmandu, March 15 -- Amid failure of the recommendation committee to pick candidates for vice-chancellor (VC), Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has called a meeting of the Kathmandu University senate to resolve the impasse.

The senate, which is set to meet on Monday morning, will discuss the reasons why former vice-chancellor Suresh Raj Sharma-led panel could not accomplish its job to recommend three names for the position and find a way out, according to varsity officials. Led by the prime minister, the ex-officio chancellor of the university, the senate is the highest authority for policy decisions.

With Bhola Thapa, the university's VC retiring on January 19, the government on December 14, 2o24 had constituted a Sharma-led committee wi...