Ex-VC Adesh Pal forced to retire

Ex-VC Adesh Pal forced to retire

Palanpur:31.10.2021

Adesh Pal, professor and head of the English department at the Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University and ex-VC of Gujarat University was forcibly retired after the syndicate passed a resolution against him on Saturday. The action is based on the Lokayukta report which states that Pal had failed to give a satisfactory reply to charges of corruption levelled against him. The government’s nod to retire Pal had come last Thursday.

The charges of corruption relate to his tenure in GU during 2011 when the GU campus library was said to have been defrauded of Rs 1.7 crore. The Lokayukta took up the case after the education department filed a formal complaint. On October 14, deputy secretary of the education department, Moulik Shah wrote a letter to North Gujarat university to take action which resulted in the syndicate forcibly retiring him from Nov 1, 2021.

He will get post retirement benefits as per government rules. TNN