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V-C: Retired judge to probe allegations of irregularities
Syndicate gives qualification approval to American College Principal
A retired judge will probe into the allegations of
irregularities in teaching staff appointments in Madurai Kamaraj
University here.
The Vice-Chancellor, Kalyani
Mathivanan, said on Saturday that she had now reconsidered her earlier
decision to form a three-member panel to investigate into the
allegations and instead go for a retired judge to conduct the probe.
“A
probe would be made into the allegations of irregularities in faculty
appointments made earlier. The retired judge will submit a report,” she
told The Hindu after chairing her second Syndicate meeting as Vice-Chancellor.
Academic issues
The issue of probe into appointments, however, did not come up for
discussion in the Syndicate meeting since the agenda was mostly packed
with academic issues.
The Saturday meeting was attended by the Higher Education Secretary, T. S. Sridhar, and other members.
Originally,
the Vice-Chancellor had last month proposed to form a three-member
panel to probe the alleged irregularities in the appointment of
assistant professors for various departments in the university amidst
allegations that the posts were sold when the recruitment happened in
2009.
Dr. Kalyani Mathivanan also informed that the
Syndicate had given qualification approval to the American College
Principal, M. D. Christober.
“The Dean's office had
verified the Principal's academic qualification documents and
recommended that approval can be given. Hence, the Syndicate members
approved it and our duty stops with that as far as the American College
issue is concerned,” she said.
Routine
Stating
that giving qualification approval was a routine thing for a
university, she said that it was now left to the American College
management and the others to decide on what they should do next.
“The approval was sought from the Madurai Kamaraj University and we gave it,” the Vice-Chancellor also added.
Stating
that the Higher Education Secretary had given good ideas to her and
other Syndicate members on how to handle important decisions, she said
that “he was able to guide us correctly due to his rich experience in
administration. It helped me personally to learn how to solve problems.”
I was very clearly told that it is just an 'open-and-shut-case, as far as this qualification issue is concerned. U.G.C. very clearly states that Ph.D. should only be in his major subject. So it was confident that his appeal to University would fall through. But he has come through this, i dont know how!
ReplyDeletethe issue of the american college - i understand, is that the governing council of the college is in question. hence all the decisions made there is not acceptable. fuss over christie's qualification should not be greater than his appointment as the principal of the college. i only hope and pray the college gets back on its feet on resolving the issue of the GC.
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