Jalandhar, Punjab (February 25, 2013): In the backdrop of Delhi police
registering the FIR against seven Punjab Technical University (PTU)
functionaries for cheating students, the Dal Khalsa has asked the
Governor and Chancellor of the University to suspend Vice-Chancellor Dr
Rajneesh Arora from the post immediately.
Notably, the Delhi police have registered an FIR u/s 406, 420 and 120-B
of the IPC against seven PTU officials, including vice-chancellor, for
cheating students by charging fees for them for distance education
courses without obtaining mandatory approval from the Distance Education
Council to run such courses in the national capital.
In a statement, party general secretary Dr Manjinder Singh and
spokesperson Kanwar Pal Singh said Dr Arora should be placed under
suspension till his name was not cleared by the court from all
accusations. He said Arora is mired in the corruption cases and he
doesn’t have ‘clean hands’.
They further said PTU was set up to fast-track education and to take
advantage of the urgent need for technical hands in the country. For the
record, since inception, this University’s approach to education,
training, expansion of its base has been dubious. “Irregularities and
malpractices has become the order of the day in the PTU and Dr Arora was
solely responsible for ruining the image of the institution”, said
they.
They slammed Punjab Chief Minister for his “sift corner” towards Dr
Arora and alleged that the latter is a known RSS parcharak wedded to
anti-pluralism and Hindutva agenda.
Accusing him for foisting of one language, one religion and monolithic
culture in the PTU run colleges especially in the ‘Human Values and
Professional Ethics’ special course, they said any course in Ethics in
Punjab and India should be plural and inclusive in nature. They
reiterated their demand and urged Chancellor to withdraw the present
course in its current form and replace it with a well-thought-of subject
which advocates a pluralistic way of life.