I'm keen to know anything has been exposed about Equal Opportunity Office appointments? any clue?...
Gross misuse of power and position, as well as glaring instances of nepotism and favouritism while choosing heads of department and university officials, have been pointed out by the Delhi University Teachers' Association in their detailed dossier containing the alleged "wrongdoings" of the Delhi University administration functioning since 2011. http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-newdelhi/duta-dossier-rakes-up-more-dirt/article6289592.ece "Principals of colleges were removed in an arbitrary manner and special officers on special duty were especially deputed from the university administration. This principal usually functioned to victimise teachers who were (hauled up for) saying anything against the university administration," said DUTA president Nandita Narain. http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-newdelhi/dutas-dossier-lists-murky-dealings/article6289381.ece The dossier also stated that teachers who made enquiries as to financial misappropriation were threatened with suspension and enquiries and a show cause notice was issued to certain teachers from the English department who refused to be part of some non statutory committee. The dossier also made specific charges against the university registrar Alka Sharma who has been in the university for around seven years. "She is not an academic; she is an officer of the university who has been allowed to act with extra-constitutional authority. She has been sending warning letters to teachers warning them against taking part in protests and threatening them with repercussions if they do. Her high-handedness was resented by teachers. We received several complaints against her from teachers. No Registrar in the university's 90-year history was allowed to be so involved in academic matters of the university like her. She was even allowed to be part of the Academic Council meetings and even go on academic foreign trips," added Ms. Narain, while releasing the dossier in the presence of at least 30 teachers who all had something or the other to say about the "gross misuse of power" committed by the Registrar. Ms. Sharma did not respond to SMS queries for her response. Another name that crops up in the dossier is that of C.S. Dubey. The DUTA alleged that he had been allotted several important positions in the university for which he was not qualified. "A glaring example of such arbitrary use of power to favour certain individuals is the case of the Geology department in which Prof. C.S. Dubey was appointed head on June 1, 2011 bypassing other senior professors who were more qualified for the job. And, then his term was extended again in 2014. He also occupies the position of the Director of the School of Open Learning as well as the Director of the Sports Council," said the dossier. "He is no sportsman," said Anita Ghosh, who is part of the Sports Council and treasurer of the DUTA, while alleging that several of his relatives and "known" people were getting jobs as trainers and coaches in the university. non-disclosure of queries related to funds collected for Uttarakhand relief work to foreign trips made by DU officials, the charg sheet has it all The Delhi University Teachers' Association has come out with a charge sheet of gross financial irregularities against the university administration after months of "careful research, several RTIs and common observations". >From non-disclosure of queries related to funds collected for Uttarakhand relief work to random foreign trips made by university officials to misappropriation of massive funds to promote the now-failed four-year undergraduate programme (FYUP), the dossier has it all. It was released along with supporting documents and copies of RTI enquiries. "The foreign travel by university officers has been many and there have been several times when the university Registrar Alka Sharma has also been sent on academic tours although she is not an academician at all," pointed out the dossier under the head of "foreign tours". The dossier also noted that not only UGC money but the money from the School of Open Learning, which has a sizeable deposit because of the fees it collects from around 1,50,000 students it admits every year, has also been siphoned off by the university. "The governing body in its meeting on December 26, 2013, decided to divert Rs.100 crore to the 'Vice-Chancellor/ University authorities for framing courses for open learning'. It also decided to 'transfer Rs.25 crore to Ramanujan College'," said the special section on the illegal diversion of funds from the SOL. Under the heading "misappropriation of grants for up-gradation of teaching facilities", the dossier stated that since 2012, an amount of Rs.92 lakh has been spent on "Antardhvani", the university festival. This has been revealed by RTI enquiries. DUTA president Nandita Narain said: "The university's classrooms are overcrowded and there is a severe shortage of faculty. The crowding happened because of extra students, which the university was forced to take in as part of the OBC expansion scheme. And, to allow the university to make provisions in terms of infrastructure and teaching staff, the UGC granted massive amount of money to DU running into several hundred crores." -- Avinash Shahi Doctoral student at Centre for Law and Governance JNU Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. 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