RECOGNITION TO BE WITHDRAWN
Met office can’t pay ₹75k fee, to stop PhD research
Siddharth.Prabhakar@timesgroup.com
Chennai:29.01.2019
University of Madras has moved a proposal to withdraw recognition to the Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC) Chennai to conduct research leading to a PhD in atmospheric science. This is because the RMC, the central government’s official body in Chennai responsible for weather forecasting, was not able to pay ₹75,000 which was the university’s fee for inspection and continuation for running the research programme.
S Balachandran, deputy director general of RMC, Chennai, told TOI that the centre had conducted research on northeast monsoon and radars which had led to PhDs in the past. “We continue to publish papers in journals, but won’t be able to take students for PhDs,” he said.
Another reason cited by the university was that there were no research supervisors at the institute as on date.
University sources said in May 2017, the university gave recognition to the PhD programme run by RMC based on an inspection report. However, it declined to exempt the inspection fee and asked the centre to pay up. The reason given by RMC was that
their headquarters had not given permission to pay the fee.
In July 2018, R Suresh, a deputy-director at the centre, told the varsity that the institute had only two recognised PhD supervisors of which one was Y E A Raj, the deputy director general who retired in 2014. Another was Suresh himself who was due to retire by July end. Five scholars were pursuing their PhD from the institute of which two completed and three withdrew.
“We are not in a position to appoint a research guide. We can’t pay the fee,” sources quoted the RMC as telling the university.
University vice-chancellor P Duraisamy confirmed the reasons for the proposal but said it was on hold. The syndicate in its December meeting had deferred the move, sources said.
Balachandran said there were too many issues involved in running the PhD programme which RMC as a central government organisation would not be able to follow. “The rules framed by the university were too stringent. There is no provision to collect fees, ” he said.
Officials who are to guide PhD scholars may be transferred to other locations as it was a central government office, he said.
Met office can’t pay ₹75k fee, to stop PhD research
Siddharth.Prabhakar@timesgroup.com
Chennai:29.01.2019
University of Madras has moved a proposal to withdraw recognition to the Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC) Chennai to conduct research leading to a PhD in atmospheric science. This is because the RMC, the central government’s official body in Chennai responsible for weather forecasting, was not able to pay ₹75,000 which was the university’s fee for inspection and continuation for running the research programme.
S Balachandran, deputy director general of RMC, Chennai, told TOI that the centre had conducted research on northeast monsoon and radars which had led to PhDs in the past. “We continue to publish papers in journals, but won’t be able to take students for PhDs,” he said.
Another reason cited by the university was that there were no research supervisors at the institute as on date.
University sources said in May 2017, the university gave recognition to the PhD programme run by RMC based on an inspection report. However, it declined to exempt the inspection fee and asked the centre to pay up. The reason given by RMC was that
their headquarters had not given permission to pay the fee.
In July 2018, R Suresh, a deputy-director at the centre, told the varsity that the institute had only two recognised PhD supervisors of which one was Y E A Raj, the deputy director general who retired in 2014. Another was Suresh himself who was due to retire by July end. Five scholars were pursuing their PhD from the institute of which two completed and three withdrew.
“We are not in a position to appoint a research guide. We can’t pay the fee,” sources quoted the RMC as telling the university.
University vice-chancellor P Duraisamy confirmed the reasons for the proposal but said it was on hold. The syndicate in its December meeting had deferred the move, sources said.
Balachandran said there were too many issues involved in running the PhD programme which RMC as a central government organisation would not be able to follow. “The rules framed by the university were too stringent. There is no provision to collect fees, ” he said.
Officials who are to guide PhD scholars may be transferred to other locations as it was a central government office, he said.
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