Can’t perform outside without approval, Visva-Bharati tells music teachers

Faculty members resent the order terming it “caging of their freedom”

Sangit Bhavana, one of the oldest wings of the Rabindranath Tagore-founded Visva-Bharati, has barred its faculty members from participating in any event outside the university without permission. Teachers are not only angry about the order, calling it “caging of their freedom”, but also the “casual manner” it was served on them. The notice, printed on a plain piece of paper and signed by the principal of Sangit Bhavana on Sunday, was circulated on the WhatsApp group of the faculty members, according to a teacher. It warned faculty members of “stern action” if they accepted “any request/proposal/assignment, etc. from any outside personnel/institution/organisation to perform/represent any online/offline programme course, etc. without approval of the competent authority”.