New Delhi, Sept. 23 -- The Supreme Court on Monday sought the response of the West Bengal governor and the state government on a list of vice chancellors recommended by an independent search-cum-selection committee headed by former chief justice of India (CJI) for appointment to 15 state universities. The court had asked the justice Lalit committee on August 1 to find a way out of the stalemate between governor CV Anand Bose (as chancellor of state universities) and chief minister Mamata Banerjee which impacted the governance of these universities with the office of governor raising objections to the names forwarded by the CM. A bench of justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh received the committee's report in a sealed cover and directed the same to be shared with Attorney General R Venkataramani appearing for the governor and advocate Jaideep Gupta for the WB government, The court posted the matter for Friday and asked the two sides to take "formal instructions" on the recommendations made by the committee. The committee, also comprising experts in the field, returned unanimous recommendations for 12 out of 15 universities while in three universities, the committee members had a difference of opinion in the order of preference while recommending the first three choices as V-C. "It seems there should not be any difficulty for appointing 12 V-Cs where unanimous recommendations have been made by the search-cum-selection committee," the bench said. As regards the three universities where the recommendation is not unanimous, the court noted that two different preference lists have been prepared by groups within the committee. Besides the 15, the court was informed that selection of V-C to two state universities - Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University and WB State University, the same was scheduled on Monday (September 22)....