The day after: V-C cancels all guest faculty appointments

In a department meeting for the approval of 23 guest faculty members appointed by the department last week,the committee members alleged that a majority of these were relatives of existing teachers. They also objected to the number of teachers appointed on guest faculty basis for certain subjects. The members pointed out that in some courses like the Masters in Public Administration and Police Administration,the number of faculty appointments was equal to the number of students enrolled.

The department has been in the dock for various reasons with even students having accused teachers of hardly taking classes that results in the failure of achieving the minimum requirement of lectures. Due to this,the examination branch refuses to release roll numbers.

RTI activist now seeks information from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

Unhappy with Panjab University’s justification for missing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s name in the list of Doctorate Degrees awarded,RTI activist Rajinder Singla today wrote a letter to the Prime Minister seeking the same information from him.

The activist also said the suspension of the Senior Assistant of the R&S Branch of the University,Satish Kumar was an example of how guilty officers managed to escape in the University. He demanded action against the Deputy Registrar (RTI)-cum-PIO (who is directly accountable under the RTI Act) for providing wrong information and the Superintendent who has attested the wrong information on the list of people who have been awarded the Doctor of Laws ( honoris causa ) by the University.

Singla pointed out that on the PM’s detailed profile posted by the Government of India on its website http://www.india.gov.in also does not mention any Doctor of Laws ( honoris causa ) of Panjab University,Chandigarh though it does refer to the same degree awarded by the University of Alberta in Edmonton,Canada in 2010.