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| ‘Bankrupt’ KU charges students for workshops, seminars | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar, July 24 (KNS): With its coffers empty due to ‘large scale bungling’ the ‘bankrupt’ Kashmir University has started to charge students and scholars for workshops and seminars.
The development is apparent outcome of the University’s decision to slash by 10 per cent the contingency expenditure of departments including that on seminars and workshops.
The sources in the Varsity told KNS that several departments have started the trend despite students and scholars having paid thousands as annual fees.
“Since the university came up with the order for austerity measures, many departments have started charging the students. It is something unheard of and it is leading to a wave of discontent among the students,” sources said.
However, the trend, sources said, is against the norms. “Workshops and seminars are part of the curriculum, and University has to pay for it. The University cannot even charge for picnics and excursions, not to talk to educational programs. But the KU is crossing the line in times of financial crisis,” they said.
Sources told KNS that despite ‘bankruptcy’ dozens of close aides of former Vice Chancellor, Prof Reyaz Punjabi and present Registrar, Prof Syed Fayyaz have either been re-employed or appointed through backdoor. “This unusual trend of reemploying retired employees seems as if there was no other person to be employed in place. And this was the decision of Prof Punjabi and Prof Fayyaz,” they said.
“We appeal the Governor N N Vohra to hold an impartial probe through Vigilance or CBI in the bungling made in the Varsity in the last three years,” they appealed.
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