Delhi University’s Vice-Chancellor Dinesh Singh is getting no respite from his detractors, as some teachers have launched a signature campaign to seek his removal in the aftermath of the rollback of the controversial Four-Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUP).
The move comes a month after the Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA) released a White Paper against the vice-chancellor documenting all the allegations against Singh regarding financial, administrative and academic issues.
The White Paper was sent to the Ministry of Human Resource Development and President Pranab Mukherjee, the university’s visitor.
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Launched last week on online platform ‘change.org’, the signature campaign is addressed to the President seeking the removal of Singh.
“Ever since after the rollback of the FYUP in the University of Delhi, Vice- Chancellor Prof. Dinesh Singh is taking decisions calculated to cause tension and turmoil in the University. Kindly take urgent steps to ensure his removal and save the University. A White Paper containing grave administrative and financial irregularities has already been submitted by DUTA to your office,” the petition reads.
The teachers alleged that Singh has turned vindictive after the FYUP rollback.
“I suggested that we should take our movement against the irregularities by the VC forward…He is turning vindictive and is taking decisions which are not in favour of the university. DUTA released a White Paper and National Democratic Teachers’ Front (NDTF) will soon release a charge sheet with more allegations and proofs against Singh,” said Inder Mohan Kapahy, a NDTF member.
Naveen Gaur, who started the petition, said that the move demands the visitor (Mukherjee) to take urgent steps to remove the vice-chancellor in the backdrop of the allegations revealed in the DUTA document.
“Many teachers are also getting signatures on hardcopy in their colleges. We are trying to reach out to people through social media to sign the document and pressure for the V-C’s removal,” Gaur, a DU professor, said.
While speculation of the vice-chancellor being asked to resign from the top post are gaining ground, the HRD ministry has already asked the university to comprehensively reply to the graft allegations in its functioning raised by the DUTA in the White Paper.
Taking cognisance of the White Paper released by DUTA alleging financial and administrative irregularities in the varsity's functioning, the HRD ministry has directed the Delhi University to submit a point-bypoint explanation on each issue raised against the varsity.
“I am directed to refer to the complaint received from DUTA against the vice-chancellor regarding alleged anomalies and irregularities in the functioning of the university. It is requested that para-wise comments on each issue may be sent at the earliest,” P. K. Saha, a senior official in the HRD ministry, wrote in the official communication to the Delhi University.
The university officials confirmed that the communication has been received, and added that the varsity will reply soon. Meanwhile, Dinesh Singh could not be contacted for his comments.
The DUTA said it will soon demonstrate outside the HRD ministry office to demand Singh’s immediate removal.
“The MHRD has already asked DU to respond to allegations levelled in the White Paper. We will not stop our movement till the V-C is removed from his post,” Abha Dev Habib, a DUTA member, said.
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