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| CUK's VC too beneficiary of Mushtaq Peer's largesse | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Dec 18: The detained Chairman of the Board of Professional Entrance Examinations [BOPEE] and one-time Director of the Computer Science Centre at the University of Kashmir Mushtaq Ahmad Peer has surfaced as the one who had played a key role in the backdoor appointment of the former Vice Chancellor Wahid Qureshi's two sons in the University. The process had been started during the tenure of Jalees Tareen and taken to its logical conclusion around the timing of Qureshi's taking over as the VC. Qureshi is now completing his term as VC of Central University Kashmir [CUK].
Two officials, one of them a former Registrar and another a Deputy Registrar, are known to have helped Peer and Qureshi in making the backdoor appointment of two of his sons possible. After Qureshi took as the VC, Peer managed to include his boss's son included as a member in the committees responsible for conducting routine and special inspection of the computer centres and the private college aspiring to operate or operating under-graduation courses in Education, Computer Sciences and Information Technology.
As an open secret on the campus, an amount of Rs 5 Lakh to Rs 10 Lakh was clandestinely collected from each college and centre for a positive inspection report that could further facilitate their recognition with the University of Kashmir as also the allotment of the quota of seats. For the allotment of each seat, an amount of Rs 3 Lakh to Rs 5 Lakh had been fixed by the academic mafia getting exposed after Peer's bungling in the CET in 2010, 2011 and 2012. The owner of a private educational institute situated in Karan Nagar area of Srinagar had been secretly appointed as the "collector" of the huge bribe money from the private B Ed and B Tech college owners.
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language [NCPUL] director, who had been appointed as Assistant Registrar in Kashmir University after the group surrender of his Alfatah---Kashmir's first guerrilla outfit---and Peer were patronized by some senior Congress leaders. An investigation agency once conducted a raid on the NCPUL director's home and claimed to have recovered cash worth Rs 2 crore. However, the prosecution failed to establish the charges.
The Department of Electronics and Accreditation of Computer Courses (DOEACC), an autonomous scientific society under the Indian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, which was involved in training, consulting, product development, entrepreneurship and human resource development in information, electronics & communication technologies, also witnessed untold irregularities and embezzlements during the same period as Peer recommended substandard colleges and centres, allegedly against cash payment of bribe money.
The DOEACC Society was created by the Department of Electronics to implement a scheme of the All India Council of Technical Education [AICTE], with a view to harness the resources available in the private sector for training in the computers with a view to meet the increasing requirement of the trained manpower.
The NCPUL director, who was later installed as Registrar of Jamia Hamdard, had recently approached the University's new V.C. Mr Qazi and claimed pensionery benefits. However, Mr Qazi categorically told him that it was not possible as the former had been already getting pension as Assistant Registrar of the Kashmir University.
One of the Deputy Secretaries of the KU, who has, according to a memorandum submitted to Governor N.N. Vohra, got over 100 of his relatives and friends appointed through backdoor, has reportedly played the key role in arranging 12 kanals of land each for his former Registrar and Mushtaq Peer in Ganderbal. |
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