‘Double role’: BDU strips PG student of gold medal
Sambath.Kumar@timesgroup.com
Trichy : Bharathidasan University withdrew the gold medal of a postgraduate student at the last minute on Tuesday on finding that she had been working in Annamalai University while attending the PG course. The woman, S Rajakumari, was to receive her medal from governor Banwarilal Purohit along with 67 other gold medalists at the 34th convocation of the university on Wednesday.
Highly placed sources in the university said that it had come to light that Rajakumari had been working as a section officer in Annamalai University, Chidambaram. That didn’t stop her from enrolling for MA (Sanskrit) course at a college affiliated to BDU in Thanjavur and also passing out with gold medal. Being a non-teaching staff member, she was not privileged to go for a sabbatical for two years to complete the course in regular mode.
However, she not only continued to work at Annamalai University but also managed to get attendance from the college to write the exams.
The issue surfaced at the last minute when the university authorities received an anonymous letter about Rajakumari. Since she was on the university premises as one among the medal winners who were rehearsing for the convocation, she was quizzed by the registrar and controller of examinations. The officials discovered that she was a non-teaching staff member at the state-run university who managed to write her MA exams without attending regular classes. Hence, she was asked to leave and stay away from the convocation.
A top source at the BDU registrar’s office said that a decision on Rajakumari would be taken after the probe by a committee.
Sambath.Kumar@timesgroup.com
Trichy : Bharathidasan University withdrew the gold medal of a postgraduate student at the last minute on Tuesday on finding that she had been working in Annamalai University while attending the PG course. The woman, S Rajakumari, was to receive her medal from governor Banwarilal Purohit along with 67 other gold medalists at the 34th convocation of the university on Wednesday.
Highly placed sources in the university said that it had come to light that Rajakumari had been working as a section officer in Annamalai University, Chidambaram. That didn’t stop her from enrolling for MA (Sanskrit) course at a college affiliated to BDU in Thanjavur and also passing out with gold medal. Being a non-teaching staff member, she was not privileged to go for a sabbatical for two years to complete the course in regular mode.
However, she not only continued to work at Annamalai University but also managed to get attendance from the college to write the exams.
The issue surfaced at the last minute when the university authorities received an anonymous letter about Rajakumari. Since she was on the university premises as one among the medal winners who were rehearsing for the convocation, she was quizzed by the registrar and controller of examinations. The officials discovered that she was a non-teaching staff member at the state-run university who managed to write her MA exams without attending regular classes. Hence, she was asked to leave and stay away from the convocation.
A top source at the BDU registrar’s office said that a decision on Rajakumari would be taken after the probe by a committee.
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