BU registrar in-charge resigns following differences with VC

November 29, 2016 12:00 am | Updated 05:32 am IST - COIMBATORE:

Registrar in-charge of Bharathiar University P.S. Mohan submitted his resignation on Monday following differences with Vice Chancellor A. Ganapathi.

Mr. Mohan, who is the Head of the Department, Chemistry, said that he had to resign because the VC attempted to blame him for convening the November 22 Syndicate meeting and keeping him in the dark about a State Government communication in this regard.

The University had planned to convene a Syndicate meeting on November 19.

But it had to call off the meeting following a urgent communication from the Government on the previous evening.

The meeting was to ratify appointment of around 80 persons as faculty at various levels.

The urgent communication was through fax and phone calls, Mr. Mohan said and added that he, however, got to know of the government’s decision to cancel the meeting from the VC, Mr. Ganapathi, who had told him that the meeting was cancelled for administrative reasons.

He did not get the fax communication directly because his fax machines had been under repair for over three months.

Based on VC’s communication, he immediately called up Syndicate members, including Government nominees, to say that the Syndicate meeting had been cancelled.

A couple of days later, the VC sent him a note asking him to convene a urgent meeting of the Syndicate on November 22.

Since the VC was in Chennai when he communicated the decision, he presumed that the VC must have obtained the permission of the senior officials of the Higher Education Department.

Based on the VC’s note, he once again informed the date and time of Syndicate meeting to all the Syndicate meetings, including Government nominees. And, on the day the Syndicate met and ratified the appointment of selected candidates, most of who joined duty in no time.

Meanwhile, on November 21, he got the written communication from the Government asking for the November 19 meeting to be called off, Mr. Mohan said and pointed out that the first, November 18 communication was by way of fax and oral message and the November 21 was the written, official communication of the same.

He immediately forwarded the same to the VC. But on Monday (November 28), the VC attempted to lay the blame on him for urgently convening the November 22 meeting by hiding the November 21communication.

Mr. Mohan said that he had acted only as per the orders of the VC and that he had independently verified that the VC too had received the November 18 fax ordering cancellation of the November 19 Syndicate meeting.

That being the case, it was unfair on the part of the VC to blame him. Therefore, he wanted to be relieved and informed the same orally. When the VC again attempted to bring out the differences in writing in his reliving order, he decided to resign by sending a written communication, Mr. Mohan added.

Efforts to reach Mr. Ganapathi failed.

His mobile phone was switched off and messages went unanswered.

Sources said that the selection of 80 candidates for appointment as faculty was fraught with allegations and the University had come under criticism under various quarters. It was for this reason that the Government had wanted the postponement of the Syndicate meeting.

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