The caretaker government has set up a search committee for appointing vice chancellors in public universities with the ultimate aim of choosing the very best for the top administration in the universities in a clear and transparent manner. Applications were sought to fill in the vacancies. Recently, a few appointments and selections were made which raised questions in the public mind. For a newly established general public university, two candidates were nominated with the background of purely technical education like agriculture. Why such experts should be appointed as VC of a general university while there were qualified candidates with general education background?