The Hindu : Rally seeking action against Pondy varsity VC

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Friday, Apr 11, 2003

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Rally seeking action against Pondy varsity VC

By Our Staff Reporter

Pondicherry April 10 . A rally was taken out today by members of the Pondicherry University Teachers Association and the University Non-Teaching Staff Association in the town to urge the Administration to initiate action on the basis of the Centre's response to the plea of the associations for a probe panel against the Vice-Chancellor of the Pondicherry University, V. T. Patil.

A delegation of the organisers of the rally presented a memorandum to the government seeking the intervention of the Lt. Governor to initiate action against the Vice-Chancellor.

A joint communication from S. Gunasekaran and N. Natarajan, president and secretary respectively of the Pondicherry University Teachers Association), and M. Vallathan, president, and M. Velayudham, general secretary of the non-teaching staff association, said the Centre had constituted a high level fact-finding committee to go into the allegations the associations had made against the Vice-Chancellor. This committee would camp on the university campus for three days from April 28.

The communication said today's rally was to urge suspension of the Vice-Chancellor in view of the constitution of the committee by the Centre to probe into the allegations. There would be free and fair probe only when he is placed under suspension, it said.

The organisers of the rally said the Additional Secretary of the University Grants Commission, Gurbaksh Singh, had informed them that the UGC had set up the high level committee for probe into the allegations.

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