Dr Sharma might lose post of HoD

Director K S Pandey not taking action as per advise of MHRD hence at last Chairman Mr A N Singh has to take action. Read HT report . Another KPS Gill story......

  

The detail report of HT of  today as under-

 

Reverted to Asst Prof in major fallout of Buch Report

 

Dr Sharma might lose post of HoD

 

Following Approval of the Board of Governors (BoG) of Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT), Professor and Head of Department of Architecture and Planning Dr Ashutosh Sharma has been reverted to the post of Assistant Professor. This would mean that he couldn't hold the post of head of department anymore.

 

Also he has to be removed from any other administrative post he holds and is barred from holding any such post in future.

 

The Chairman of the Board of Governors Mr A N Singh signed the order himself on Tuesday after the Director Dr K S Panday and the registrar and member secretary of the BoG R K Diwedi refused to do so even after repeated instruction by chairman.

 

However neither the Director nor Chairman could be  contacted on the issue.

The Chairman reportedly wrote on the orders clearly that he had to sign the orders following refusal by the director and MS of BoG to do so.

The order also mentioned that Dr Sharma should not hold any position in future as he was found involved in irregularities , sources said.

Earlier Dr Sharma had been removed from the post of Dean of Administrative of the institute following directives of the chairman as fallout of the MN Buch committee report.

 

It may be mentioned that in his report ,M N Buch had recommended reversal of  Dr Sharma from the post as his interdisciplinary Phd was in question and made him ineligible to become a professor.

Upon the directives of the union HRD Ministry that accepted the Buch committee report in toto , the chairman had instituted an enquiry committee headed by former DGP of Chhattisgarh S N Shukla. The Shukla committee also reportedly came up with a report corroborating Buch report and the board of Governors of the institute accepted this enquiry report recently. However despite directives the the director was not issuing the orders of the reversal forcing the chairman BoG o sign the orders himself on Tuesday , sources said.

 

When contacted , Dr Ashutosh Sharma said that he was on medical leave and had not received any such order. He said that if any such action was taken against him it was a step personal vendetta by the chairman of the BoG  A N Singh as he ( Dr Sharma) had filed public interest litigation ( PIL) against the chairman questioning his eligibility in becoming the chairman of NIT , as he ( Singh) was neither engineer/technologist nor academician.