College of Engineering ‘sought’ special class fees without permission
Ram Sundaram| TNN | Dec 5, 2017, 06:00 IST
CHENNAI: The College of Engineering, Guindy, under Anna University, 'illegally' collected fees for special classes for weak students, show documents taken up for review by the higher education department in 2016.
Besides ?22 lakh collected from these students, mostly from economically backward families, ?17 lakh was spent on staff remuneration in the past without proper permission from the university syndicate, the documents show.
The Centre for Faculty Development in CEG decided to conduct in 2010-11'refresher courses' for various subjects for the students, to help them clear arrears. A total of 1,117 students, who joined CEG between 2004 and 2010, registered.
Based on then Vice-Chancellor Mannar Jawahar's instruction, ?2,000 was collected from per student per course. This, the management claimed, would be used to pay faculty members, heads of departments and programme co-ordinators.
Spl classes are obligatory work of teachers: Report
While faculty members handling such classes were entitled to ?15,000 per subject, HODs got ?10,000 and co-ordinators ?1,000-?1,500.
As per the university statute, approval of the finance committee (FC) and syndicate is needed to collect money from students and pay staff who handled those classes.
The varsity, documents show, neither got the approval of the FC nor the syndicate but collected ?22.34 lakh from students.
"Itis a part and parcelof theduty of teachers to 'uplift' the poor and weaker students by coaching them specially. Conduct of special classes is obligatory work of teachers to train the weaker studentswithservice motive," said D Rathinavelu, deputy director of local fund audit, in his report for the particular year released in August 2016 Collecting ?2,000 from each student without prior approval for such classes was not in order, the report said and recommended prior approval from syndicate and FC in future.
While former VC Jawahar claimed the decision was ratified after the 2016 August Assembly session, incumbent authorities could not confirm it. "It was not taken up for discussion in syndicate meetings conducted after March this year," sources told TOI.
Sources added that many students failed in mathematics and physics that year and the programme was aimed at helping them. However, they refused to comment on not getting prior approval.
Ram Sundaram| TNN | Dec 5, 2017, 06:00 IST
CHENNAI: The College of Engineering, Guindy, under Anna University, 'illegally' collected fees for special classes for weak students, show documents taken up for review by the higher education department in 2016.
Besides ?22 lakh collected from these students, mostly from economically backward families, ?17 lakh was spent on staff remuneration in the past without proper permission from the university syndicate, the documents show.
The Centre for Faculty Development in CEG decided to conduct in 2010-11'refresher courses' for various subjects for the students, to help them clear arrears. A total of 1,117 students, who joined CEG between 2004 and 2010, registered.
Based on then Vice-Chancellor Mannar Jawahar's instruction, ?2,000 was collected from per student per course. This, the management claimed, would be used to pay faculty members, heads of departments and programme co-ordinators.
Spl classes are obligatory work of teachers: Report
While faculty members handling such classes were entitled to ?15,000 per subject, HODs got ?10,000 and co-ordinators ?1,000-?1,500.
As per the university statute, approval of the finance committee (FC) and syndicate is needed to collect money from students and pay staff who handled those classes.
The varsity, documents show, neither got the approval of the FC nor the syndicate but collected ?22.34 lakh from students.
"Itis a part and parcelof theduty of teachers to 'uplift' the poor and weaker students by coaching them specially. Conduct of special classes is obligatory work of teachers to train the weaker studentswithservice motive," said D Rathinavelu, deputy director of local fund audit, in his report for the particular year released in August 2016 Collecting ?2,000 from each student without prior approval for such classes was not in order, the report said and recommended prior approval from syndicate and FC in future.
While former VC Jawahar claimed the decision was ratified after the 2016 August Assembly session, incumbent authorities could not confirm it. "It was not taken up for discussion in syndicate meetings conducted after March this year," sources told TOI.
Sources added that many students failed in mathematics and physics that year and the programme was aimed at helping them. However, they refused to comment on not getting prior approval.
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