A legislative enquiry panel led by Gadchiroli MLA Anand Gedam, on Thursday, criticised the Nagpur University officials for their inaction on the issue of severe irregularities in roster as well as their failure to punish the guilty officials, sources revealed.
The panel was on a two-day visit to NU and other institutions in order to collect details about the appointments, promotions, reservations, scholarships, admissions of SC, NT and VJ candidates in both teaching and non-teaching posts. The members flayed NU bosses including vice chancellor Vilas Sapkal and registrar Mahesh Yenkie for not correcting the roster that had severe irregularities and directed them to do the needed within a month and submit a report.
Though Gedam refused to comment stating that it will be a breach of privilege, other members confirmed the development. "We've found severe backlog in the appointments of SC, NT and VJ candidates and have instructed the NU officials to immediately fill the posts up. We will be meeting them again on Friday morning to discuss the remaining issues. Later we will visit the deputy director of education's office," Gedam told TOI.
The 16-member MLA panel also visited the NU boys and girls hostel. They raised several questions as to why no action had been taken even after eight months on reports submitted by panels headed by justice GG Loney and former GAD principal secretary PS Meena. While Loney had recommended immediate lodging of police complaint, Meena pointed out that the appointments of 12 NU teachers including PN Khobragade, PM Tumane, VK Jambhulkar and DD Barasgade were completely illegal as roster was ignored while recruiting them and also asked the NU bosses to immediately replace them. The third panel that was headed by North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon, deputy registrar, RJ Valvi had also endorsed the same action. However three VCs including SN Pathan, BV Gopala Reddy (Officiating charge), and now Sapkal failed to take any action.
The members expressed deep anguish over tampering of the roster which was first exposed by TOI on March 19, 2009. The newspaper also reported about how the roster was severely fudged by the officials for their own benefits. Over 500 NU appointments including those of heads of departments, deans, teachers and assistant registrars that were made after 2004 would stand cancelled if roster corrected.
The members disclosed that NU officials were told in advance about their visit six months back and also a questionnaire was dispatched to them with directions to keep the answers ready. Ironically, none of the answers were satisfactory while some answers were objectionable. "The officials failed to submit reports as demanded. We've asked them to reply by tomorrow. We've pointed out to them various media reports including those of TOI and asked them take action against the guilty," a member said.
The NU officials however pleaded before them that theirs was an entirely new team and therefore the entire processes of correcting roster and punishing guilty was taking time. The panel would submit its report to the legislative secretary after getting a reply from NU. The secretary will hear the NU officials on the adverse remarks before submitting the report to the legislative council, members informed.
The panel was on a two-day visit to NU and other institutions in order to collect details about the appointments, promotions, reservations, scholarships, admissions of SC, NT and VJ candidates in both teaching and non-teaching posts. The members flayed NU bosses including vice chancellor Vilas Sapkal and registrar Mahesh Yenkie for not correcting the roster that had severe irregularities and directed them to do the needed within a month and submit a report.
Though Gedam refused to comment stating that it will be a breach of privilege, other members confirmed the development. "We've found severe backlog in the appointments of SC, NT and VJ candidates and have instructed the NU officials to immediately fill the posts up. We will be meeting them again on Friday morning to discuss the remaining issues. Later we will visit the deputy director of education's office," Gedam told TOI.
The 16-member MLA panel also visited the NU boys and girls hostel. They raised several questions as to why no action had been taken even after eight months on reports submitted by panels headed by justice GG Loney and former GAD principal secretary PS Meena. While Loney had recommended immediate lodging of police complaint, Meena pointed out that the appointments of 12 NU teachers including PN Khobragade, PM Tumane, VK Jambhulkar and DD Barasgade were completely illegal as roster was ignored while recruiting them and also asked the NU bosses to immediately replace them. The third panel that was headed by North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon, deputy registrar, RJ Valvi had also endorsed the same action. However three VCs including SN Pathan, BV Gopala Reddy (Officiating charge), and now Sapkal failed to take any action.
The members expressed deep anguish over tampering of the roster which was first exposed by TOI on March 19, 2009. The newspaper also reported about how the roster was severely fudged by the officials for their own benefits. Over 500 NU appointments including those of heads of departments, deans, teachers and assistant registrars that were made after 2004 would stand cancelled if roster corrected.
The members disclosed that NU officials were told in advance about their visit six months back and also a questionnaire was dispatched to them with directions to keep the answers ready. Ironically, none of the answers were satisfactory while some answers were objectionable. "The officials failed to submit reports as demanded. We've asked them to reply by tomorrow. We've pointed out to them various media reports including those of TOI and asked them take action against the guilty," a member said.
The NU officials however pleaded before them that theirs was an entirely new team and therefore the entire processes of correcting roster and punishing guilty was taking time. The panel would submit its report to the legislative secretary after getting a reply from NU. The secretary will hear the NU officials on the adverse remarks before submitting the report to the legislative council, members informed.
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