VARSITY BACKING - Tainted prof retires today with benefits
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Siddharth Prabhakar
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Chennai:
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A professor at Manonmaniam
Sundaranar University (MSU) in Tirunelveli, booked more than a month ago
in a corruption case by the Directorate of Vigilance and
Anti-Corruption (DVAC), will retire from her job on Friday.
Which
raises the question: How did the professor, P K Kalyani, smoothly sail
through the graft charges and subsequent controversy to the apparent
tranquility of superannuation?
An internal enquiry conducted by the university ab solved the former head of the English department of any wrongdoing, saying she would not face any action on the charge of denying admission to certain students.
But MSU vice-chancellor Professor K Baskar, while de fending the professor, said her retirement would not impede the DVAC investigation.
“No wrongdoer can escape,“ he said.
DVAC officers had on May 22 filed an FIR against professors Kalyani and S Prabahar, who is now MSU controller of examinations (CoE), stating that they had refused to admit eligible candidates to MA and M Phil courses in English between 2011 and 2015.
The FIR stated that the professors, in denying admission to eligible candidates, had acted in defiance of Tamil Nadu government orders pertaining to community-based reservation.
After TOI reported the details of the case, the university constituted a committee to look into the charges. It submitted that the professors had followed all rules laid down by the university statute. All 26 departments in the university, including the English department, followed the same rules while conducting admissions, VC Baskar had said. Baskar's argument was that MSU, as an autonomous body, did not have to follow government norms.
“There is no need to suspend [Kalyani and Prabahar] as the government order is applicable only to government colleges and not universities that are autonomous bodies,“ he said. The committee that probed the charges will submit its findings at an MSU syndicate meeting on July 6.
An internal enquiry conducted by the university ab solved the former head of the English department of any wrongdoing, saying she would not face any action on the charge of denying admission to certain students.
But MSU vice-chancellor Professor K Baskar, while de fending the professor, said her retirement would not impede the DVAC investigation.
“No wrongdoer can escape,“ he said.
DVAC officers had on May 22 filed an FIR against professors Kalyani and S Prabahar, who is now MSU controller of examinations (CoE), stating that they had refused to admit eligible candidates to MA and M Phil courses in English between 2011 and 2015.
The FIR stated that the professors, in denying admission to eligible candidates, had acted in defiance of Tamil Nadu government orders pertaining to community-based reservation.
After TOI reported the details of the case, the university constituted a committee to look into the charges. It submitted that the professors had followed all rules laid down by the university statute. All 26 departments in the university, including the English department, followed the same rules while conducting admissions, VC Baskar had said. Baskar's argument was that MSU, as an autonomous body, did not have to follow government norms.
“There is no need to suspend [Kalyani and Prabahar] as the government order is applicable only to government colleges and not universities that are autonomous bodies,“ he said. The committee that probed the charges will submit its findings at an MSU syndicate meeting on July 6.
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