Violations galore in Annamalai Univ recruitment: Arappor
TIMES NEWS NETWORK 01.02.2025
Chennai : About 180 nonteaching staff recruited as programmers by the department of computer and information science at Annamalai University were redesignated as teaching staff. It is a violation of the rules, said anti-corruption NGO Arappor Iyakkam in its complaint to the chief minister M K Stalin and higher education minister Govi Chezhiaan on Friday. “Of the 180 staff members, only 50 of them completed PhDs. However, the redesignated staff members are now guiding 125 PhD scholars, of whom 44 already completed their PhDs. It raises questions about the quality of PhDs, and students may get affected if the PhDs are cancelled,” Arappor Iyakkam said in the complaint.
Due to the financial crisis and irregularities in appointments, the state govt took over Annamalai University and appointed a special officer in 2014. “When the university was facing a financial crisis due to excess staff, these non-teaching staff were redesignated as teaching staff through a resolution by the university’s syndicate on Nov 1, 2016,” said M Radhakrishnan of Arappor Iyakkam. Of the 154 programmers at the university, 27 of them were employed in the districts, and 30 were employed in different universities and affiliated colleges. “Redesignating the non-teaching staff as teaching staff is against the law.
According to the act, Annamalai University should have advertised the posts, and appointments should have been done by the selection committees as prescribed by the UGC rules,” the complaint said. The complaint also asked the govt to get explanations from the former vicechancellors S Manian and V Murugesan and former special officer of Annamalai University Shiv Das Meena. “The govt should conduct a thorough audit in other universities to find out whether such irregularities were committed in other universities and ensure the quality of education,” Radhakrishnan said in the complaint. Sources in the higher education department said the department would look into the complaint
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