NUJS Kolkata registrar Surajit Mukhopadaya was suspended today over allegations of financial impropriety that were raised by a judicial inquiry into NUJS and its management.
Vice chancellor Ishwara Bhatt said that “the order of suspension has been delivered on the registrar”, and that Mukhopadaya would now have to reply to it.
Bhatt added: “A disciplinary committee has been constituted. Inquiry is pending and it will come out with its observations against the others [named in the report].”
The suspension order was issued from the vice chancellor’s office, to ensure that the disciplinary committee, to be presided over by retired West Bengal civil servant Mihir Kumar Das, could proceed in its investigation in a fair manner, said Bhatt.
Mukhopadaya was not reachable for comment at the time of going to press.
Last month Legally India revealed that an inquiry committee led by ex Rajasthan high court Justice NN Mathur and two former government auditors, unearthed facts “indicative of financial mismanagement of funds by the university”.
However, another critical report produced by the Bar Council of India (BCI) in November 2013 on NUJS had been buried until published by Legally India last month.
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[b]Soon more glaring financial scams of NUJS will be exposed[/b]
Says the joker who takes pride in calling himself "Revenue service". HAHAHA
no Shamnad Basheer coz hes left
no MP Singh coz hes left
no Asst Registrar coz hes in jail
no Registrar coz hes suspended
whats left???
I remember being a student of NUJS during the time of Prof. Singh and I must admit Prof. Singh was one of the two ablest administrators NUJS ever had alongwith Prof. Menon.
The University had the best faculty during Prof. Singh's time, student events were properly funded, students were treated as an equal stakeholder and the University made significant progress after the stagnation and drop in quality of the days of Prof. Chimni ( who though an inept administrator was indeed a wonderful academic and a fabulous teacher). Don't know what axe you have to grind against Prof. Singh , but if you find slandering someone in public forum a good way to go about things then at least make an effort to share the valuable information you alone seem to possess.
Good that you have responded. I would like to respond point wise to your comments.
"Prof. Singh was one of the two ablest administrators" - I don't know what do you feel about the word ablest administrator when documents under RTI has revealed series of illegal functioning [...] undertaken by Prof. M.P. Singh. Hope you have read the BCI report carefully line by line. BCI did not make the enquiry just like that , all the documents obtained under RTI had substantial matter of M.P. Singh's [...] illegal functioning which made BCI to make the enquiry for 2 days. If M.P. Singh was so clean person why did he write to Chancellor (CJI) and Mr. Halim that due to their busy schedule they do not expect a reply on the illegal points that has been raised. Why did he resign and why did the EC called for a University Review Commission ? If Prof. Singh was so clean then why ECF minutes of the meeting were manipulated ? If did M.P. Singh was so clean why did NUJS was dragged to Calcutta High court to get the documents of M.P. Singh's illegal functioning? Can you please tell me why did M.P. Singh was so afraid that he had issue false certificate in the letter pad of NUJS? Please remember not a single illegal functioning has been reported against Prof. Chimni. At least do not compare M.P. Singh with Prof. Chimni.
You asked me to share the valuable information that I alone seem to possess - I don't understand why should I share it here ? Please make some effort you will get it but what will you do with it ?
The sheer aggression and the nature of unsubstantiated nonsense that you have been spewing against one person tell us more about you than anything about Prof. Singh. Additionally no one ever doubted Prof. Chimni's brilliance as an academic where in honestly his brilliance was. Prof. Chimni himself has publicly said he did not really enjoy administration. Also no one is questioning his integrity which I am sure is beyond reproach.
The sheer aggression and the nature of unsubstantiated nonsense that you have been spewing against one person tell us more about you than anything about Prof. Singh. Additionally no one ever doubted Prof. Chimni's brilliance as an academic where in honestly his brilliance was. Prof. Chimni himself has publicly said he did not really enjoy administration. Also no one is questioning his integrity which I am sure is beyond reproach.[/quote]
There is a previling mindset that just because there was more faculty and faster decision making under M P Singh therefore it means he was a clean upright person. Please dont mix these issues. I dunno what facts the Guest has but an allegation of corruption cannot be replied by saying the accused was an efficient administrator, etc. I also find it hard to believe but lets not forget that many questionable decisions were taken in the time of M P Singh, whether or not he was involved is a diff matter.