Thiruvalluvar univ staffers want probe into corruption
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Vellore: 19.05.2018
In the wake of an audit report finding financial irregularities of morethan ₹100crorein Thiruvalluvar University, members of the Thiruvalluvar University Employees’ Union (TUEU) and Zone III of the Association of Thiruvalluvar University Teachers (ATUT) have demanded that the state government appoint an officer of the rank of deputy secretary to conduct a detailed inquiry into the apparently rampant and largescale corruption in the university.
The union has decided to approach the Madras high court, seeking its intervention and direction to the authorities concerned to initiate civil and criminal proceedings if the government failed to act upon their complaints, honorary president of the union Prof I Elangovan said at a press conference here on Friday.
They have sent a petition along with documents availed of under the Right to Information Act, which unravelled rampant corruption in the university, to governor Banwarilal Purohit, state principal secretaries S S Poovalingam, Sunil Paliwal and K Shanmugam demanding necessary action to removethecorruptofficials.
Recollecting the appointment of Ashok Vardhan Shetty as registrar of the University of Madras, he urged the state government to appoint an IAS officer as registrar of the16-yearold Thiruvalluvar University to weed out the corrupt officials and put the institution back on track.
Citing the audit report of the university for the 2015-16 fiscal year that unearthed discrepancies in more than ₹104 crore in expenditure since 2002-03, he said that the management of the university did not submit records for the expenditure of ₹67.59 crore in the last13 years.
Similarly, the audit had raised as many as 574 objections to improper accounting to the tune of ₹36.62 crore between 2002-03 and 2015-16. “We strongly suspect that the authorities have resorted to misappropriation of the funds of more than ₹200 crore sincetheestablishmentof theuniversity.
The audit report had shed light on only half of the scam.
The report on auditing of 35 other documentsisstill awaited.Butthe authorities are not forthcoming to hand over the documents in order to cover up their corrupt practices,” he charged.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Vellore: 19.05.2018
In the wake of an audit report finding financial irregularities of morethan ₹100crorein Thiruvalluvar University, members of the Thiruvalluvar University Employees’ Union (TUEU) and Zone III of the Association of Thiruvalluvar University Teachers (ATUT) have demanded that the state government appoint an officer of the rank of deputy secretary to conduct a detailed inquiry into the apparently rampant and largescale corruption in the university.
The union has decided to approach the Madras high court, seeking its intervention and direction to the authorities concerned to initiate civil and criminal proceedings if the government failed to act upon their complaints, honorary president of the union Prof I Elangovan said at a press conference here on Friday.
They have sent a petition along with documents availed of under the Right to Information Act, which unravelled rampant corruption in the university, to governor Banwarilal Purohit, state principal secretaries S S Poovalingam, Sunil Paliwal and K Shanmugam demanding necessary action to removethecorruptofficials.
Recollecting the appointment of Ashok Vardhan Shetty as registrar of the University of Madras, he urged the state government to appoint an IAS officer as registrar of the16-yearold Thiruvalluvar University to weed out the corrupt officials and put the institution back on track.
Citing the audit report of the university for the 2015-16 fiscal year that unearthed discrepancies in more than ₹104 crore in expenditure since 2002-03, he said that the management of the university did not submit records for the expenditure of ₹67.59 crore in the last13 years.
Similarly, the audit had raised as many as 574 objections to improper accounting to the tune of ₹36.62 crore between 2002-03 and 2015-16. “We strongly suspect that the authorities have resorted to misappropriation of the funds of more than ₹200 crore sincetheestablishmentof theuniversity.
The audit report had shed light on only half of the scam.
The report on auditing of 35 other documentsisstill awaited.Butthe authorities are not forthcoming to hand over the documents in order to cover up their corrupt practices,” he charged.
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