NAGPUR, DECEMBER 15: The State Government would write to universities suggesting them to discontinue the revaluation system, Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh annopunced on Monday.Deshmukh intervened during Question Hour in the Legislative Assembly to inform the House that his Government's intention to probe deep into the malpractices and scams in valuation in various universities. The Government has noticed that revaluation is one of the major causes leading to irregularities and malpractices, he said and added that the Government would write to universities to discontinue the revaluation system.The issue figured in the Assembly when Shobhatai Phadanvis (BJP) and several others raised questions about the Nagpur University marks scam.In reply, Minister for Higher and Technical Education Dilip Valse-Patil said that chargesheets have been filed against prime accused in the scam. He clarified that no college management was involved in the scam. But a few members of the teaching and non-teaching staff of three engineering colleges and Nagpur University employees were named in the chargesheets.To a supplementary by young BJP member Devendra Phadanvis about the names of engineering colleges and prominent members of the bodies managing these colleges, the minister said some of those chargesheeted were from the teaching staff of Ramdeobaba Kamla Nehru Engineering College, Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engineering and Kavi Kulguru Institute of Technology.Far from satisfied, Shiv Sena and BJP members continued with their demand that the minister should furnish names of those running the colleges. Leader of Opposition, Narayan Rane, Liladhar Dake (Sena), BJP group leader Gopinath Munde and his party colleague Arun Adsad were in the forefront in raising the demand.Intervening at this stage, the CM said the information sought by the Opposition was not readily available with him but the same would be placed before the House soon. His reply evoked sharp protest from Sena-BJP benches. Angry members rushed to the Speakers' podium and raised slogans, briefly disrupting the proceedings.The Nagpur University marks scam issue figured in the House again when a call attention notice by ruling front member Anil Babar, was taken up. But Opposition members, who were vociferous during the Question Hour, were totally subdued. The lack of interest shown by members from Vidarbha region was most surprising.None of them raised any query on this issue during the 25-minute proceeding even while Opposition members Jaganath Patil and Bhaskar Jadhav, ruling front member Shivajirao Naik and an independent Harshawardhan Patil, all from outside Vidarbha, grilled the minister.In reply to the notice, Valse-Patil gave details of Anil Moharil Committee appointed to go into reports about missing BA II English papers, A K De Committee, appointed after the bogus degree and marks scam surfaced and another committee headed by Justice M M Qazi to probe into varsity affairs. While Moharil Committee and De committee submitted their reports, the Qazi committee report is expected by February 8 next year, he said.
