The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) issued a notice to Ahmedabad’s National Institute of Design (NID) over a petition filed by the institute’s registrar, Rekha Nair.

Nair has sought the regulation or extension to her designation as her five-year tenure with the institute is ending. In contrast, the NID has already begun to invite applications for the job.

CAT has acknowledged the admissibility of the petition filed by Nair and has scheduled the next hearing for July 23.

Registrar Rekha Nair was approached for a comment on the issue but could not be contacted.

According to the NID website, Rekha Nair has been in academia for 25 years. Before NID, she was with IIMA (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad).

She has been associated with NID since July 2019.

Her profile on the NID website describes her job as ‘the custodian of records, the common seal, the funds of the Institute and any other property of the Institute as the Governing Council shall commit to their charge’.