AMU Vice-Chancellor faces inquiry

“An inquiry is on and there are some serious allegations. Prima facie,there is a case for proceeding against the V-C so he has been asked to respond,” a highly placed official in the HRD Ministry said.

Azis,who took over as AMU V-C in 2007,has been embroiled in controversy for more than a year now over differences with several Executive Council members. Several council members also met the President recently sought an inquiry against him. Azis had recently countered these allegations saying that this was a “smear campaign” by some uncooperative council members vitiating the name of the varsity.

“The Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University Prof P K Abdul Azis has created a record by convening 15 meetings of the Executive Council in a short span of 22 months after assuming charge. The average meetings per year were only three during the previous period. It is to point out that all the university bodies have been fully revived in accordance with the best democratic traditions and as per the University Act,Statutes and Ordinances.

Besides overwhelming large number of EC meetings,the university has convened four meetings of the Academic Council. Since February 2008,a group of eight members of the EC began to function as a pressure group,trying to disturb the functioning of the EC in the discharge of its statutory functioning. Their behaviour is against the best tradition and interests of this university”,AMU spokesperson Rahat Abrar had said.