 Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 11: Jammu Youth Forum (JYF) has expressed serious concern over the approach of Acting Vice Chancellor Professor RD Sharma has reinstated Dr Darshana Sharma as Programme Coordinator for M.Ed at DDE, she was removed from the same post for her alleged involvement in copying during M.Ed test, 2013.
Addressing media persons, General Secretary JYF, Altaf Ahmed criticized the Jammu University authorities, particularly the committee constituted to enquire the copying scandal in M.Ed examination in Directorate of Distance Education, for targeting a particular community and letting the main accused free from any action.
He said that in 2013, a student was caught copying in DDE along with a book, who was consequently suspended for two years.
A contractual lecturer Dr. Narseema and Professor Darshana Sharma were on duty and in front of duo, the accused was copying, then programme coordinator M. Ed DDE was removed from the post by JU administration, but Prof RD Sharma few days after he took over as acting VC reinstated the tainted Professor even as services of contractual Lecturer Dr Nasreen whose name figured in the same case were terminated.
He added that earlier Dr Darshana would be conducting Personal Contact Programme (PCP) M.Ed. session 2014-15, commencing from 3 Dec, 2014 and 26 Dec. "The programme in-charge of first group of MEd students (1-500), Dr Darshana Sharma has engaged an M Phil Scholar in Mathematics to teach Statistics the M.Ed Students during recently held personal contact programme (PCP)", Ahmed maintained, adding that to adjust a favorite the programme in-charge not only violated the guidelines, but also cheated the students by employing scholar of another course for statistics.
However, during enquiry of the entire episode, the contractual lecturer Dr. Nasreen had informed that she was forced by the Coordinator, Darshana Sharma, to allow the M Ed student Mohammad Iqbal, to do mass copying, due to reasons best known to Darshana Sharma, he said, adding that despite the fact no action has been taken against Darshana Sharma, which was totally unfair. Jammu Youth Forum urged Chancellor of Varsity to initiate an inquiry of whole episode and taken a strict action against the culprits. |
