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| MOS Education to visit ailing BGSBU on May 26 | | Scholarship scam comes to fore | | Akshay Azad
Early Times Report
Jammu, May 24: Lashing out at the administration of Baba Gulam Shah Bhadshah University (BGSBU), wherein a scholarship scandal has come to core , Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) vice president and Member of Legislative Assembly Vibodh Gupta today said that there was complete mess in the varsity, which needed immediate and complete overhaul.
Speaking to Early Times, the MLC said that Minister of State for Education, Priya Sethi is scheduled to visit Rajouri on May 25 evening, and is expected to pay a visit to the varsity on May 26.
He further said that there was complete mess in the University and it needed immediate overhauling. "There is shortage of staff, assistant registrars. Retired Professors were made head of various departments, while contractual staff has not been regularized besides there is no appointment of non teaching staff since long", he said.
"BGSBU is a state University so the Chief Minister or Education Minister should personally get details of records and should constitute a special investigation team (SIT) to ascertain the matter", he said, adding that he would pursue the matter seriously and unearth the whole scholarship scam.
When Director Colleges Higher Education Department, Tariq Ahmad Kawoosa was contacted, he said that they had gone to varsity for investigating the complaints of quality food.
On being asked about scholarship scandal, Kawoosa said that though they were not investigating the matter but would get details about the details of scholarship, which was published in newspapers.
On being asked if Vice Chancellor was available in the varsity, Kawoosa said that during their first visit to varsity, VC Prof. IA Hamal was present there and he might have gone for Jalandhar for some work.
Sources in the Higher education department, pleading anonymity, said that enquiry has been constituted to ascertain the veracity of scholarship complaints. "Some of officials have been trying to hush-up the case and if once exposed, many officials associated with scholarships given in other institutions including ITI, will also be exposed", an official alleged.
An Schedule Tribe student of the varsity, pleading anonymity informed Early Times that delay in the release of scholarship was a continuous process in the varsity. "According to ST scholarship scheme, the ST students are repaid the entire fee paid by them. Students of Engineering stream are paying nearly Rs. 60,000 annually but were only getting Rs. 35,000 as scholarship", he said.
The student further said that Pahari and SC students were getting scholarship once in three or four years. "Till 2013, we are getting cheques from the varsity but for the last two years, the scholarship amount was directly going to the amount of beneficiaries", he said, and alleged that the scam might be running in several lakhs as a large number of students were not getting scholarship amount despite making rounds to the varsity. |
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