Teaching, non-teaching body demands judicial probe against new NAAC director

Teaching, non-teaching body demands judicial probe against new NAAC director

A joint delegation of teaching and non-teaching associations has submitted a memorandum to the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) demanding a judicial probe into the functioning of the incumbent Vice Chancellor, Prof A N Rai.

Prof Rai has recently been appointed as the new Director of National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC).

The memorandum has been submitted jointly by the North Eastern Hill University teachers’ Association (NEHUTA) and North Eastern Hill University Non-Teaching Staff Association (NEHUNSA). They have questioned the functioning of Rai and his new appointment as NAAC director.

The university body has demanded that the incumbent VC should not be allowed to leave the university till he takes corrective measures to all the "gross anomalies" and "malfunctioning" that damaged the university in the last two and half years.

“.....considering the past record as Vice-Chancellor at Mizoram university, the incumbent Vice-Chancellor Prof. A.N. Rai should not be allowed to leave the university till he takes corrective measures to all these gross anomalies and malfunctioning that damaged the university in last two and half years. Prior to his arrival, the previous incumbent also built up a nexus between contractors-administration and the office of Prof. P. Tandon, the then Vice-Chancellor by way of large scale diversion of funds from one head to the other, which acts as double damage to the university,” the memorandum stated.

The associations have demanded a judicial inquiry on the workings of the last two consecutive Vice-Chancellors - Prof Tandon and Prof Rai and have questioned issues involving construction of building and perpetuating large scale corruption, favouritism in appointments, contracts, purchases and all other such matters of public interest.

The association has demanded MHRD’s intervention and necessary action by involving the stakeholders and their representatives to save the “only premier university” of the region from dwindling.

It further alleged, “Mainly during last 2-3 years, gross violations have been reported which involved arbitrariness, irregularity and favouritism and blatant discrimination at the conduct of screening and selection process. This has led to large scale unrest and internal vitiation of departmental relationship and interactions among colleagues.”

“It is highly regrettable that the authorities of the University do not have elected representatives from teaching, non-teaching and students and thereby leading to arbitrary anti-academic decisions on many an occasion. The Academic Council, Executive Council and the Court are functioning without elective representatives of the stakeholders,” the memorandum stated.

“Various faculty appointments done during past decade involved total statutory violation by promoting nepotism and favouritism at the cost of quality and academic environment. Due to various statutory violations in the functioning and appointment of various faculty positions, the number of litigations has increased significantly from 30 to 50 over the past few years,” said the memorandum.

 

 

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