The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has constituted a two-member committee to investigate the allegations, levelled by Chandra Krishnamurthy, Vice-Chancellor of Pondicherry Central University, and by the Registrar, Rajiv Yaduvanshi, against each other.
The committee will be led by former Vice-Chancellor of the Tamil Dr. MGR Medical University, Mayilvahanan Natarajan
An order of the MHRD said that the committee had been constituted with the concurrence of the Union Minister and would have Dr. Natarajan as convener and V.Balachandran, retired Director General of Police of Tamil Nadu, as member.
The committee’s terms of reference include examining the alleged violations of statute regarding nomination of Dr. Hariharan on the planning board, a complaint that Samyuktha, librarian in the university, had made to the National Commission for Scheduled Caste and the case of illegal detention of S.Radhakrishnan, first year post-graduate student.
The committee will also go into the alleged violation of statutes in appointment of V.Indumathi as Director of Studies, Educational Innovations and Rural Reconstruction and the conduct of executive council meetings by the V-C without visitor’s nominees.
Dr.Chandra had alleged that the Registrar frequently went on leave without prior approval. On major policy decisions, the Registrar returned the files without reasons, she had said.
