Hamirpur (HP), Oct 11(UNI) A fierce fight has started between leaders and workers of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress of the district to take credit for the ouster of Prof. Vinod Yadava from the post of the Director of NIT, Hamirpur.
Both parties have described the decision of the Higher education ministry of central government as their baby.
Congress party MLA from Sujanpur, Rajendra Rana who had raised the voice of the staff of the NIT, Hamirpur against the wrong recruitments has tanked the central ministry for the decision and has demanded a further probe into the working of the NIT, Hamirpur under Prof. Yadava especially the financial dealings with regards to purchases of various items.
On other hand, the BJP leaders of the district had given its credit to their leader and local BJP MP, Anurag Thakur.
They say that it was the Union Minister of state for Finance and Corporate affairs, Anurag Thakur who had taken up this issue with the then Union HRD Minister, Ramesh Pokhriyal and accordingly a one man inquiry committee was sent to Hamirpur to look into the complaints against the Director.
Thereafter, the financial and administrative powers of Prof. Yadava were withdrawn and Prof. Lalit Awasthi of the NIT, Jalandhar was given the charge of Hamirpur NIT in addition to his duties at Jalandhar.
It was only last week that Prof.Anil Sahastrabudhe, the Chairman of the AICTE submitted its report to the Ministry of Higher education and accordingly the report was sent to the President of India with the request for the termination of the Director.
Highly placed sources in the NIT said that seeing the gravity of the situation, the President of India in his capacity as the Visitor of the Institution gave approval for the termination of Prof. Yadava.
There are reports that a number of such persons who were appointed against various posts especially teaching faculty are highly upset over the new orders and they feel that the axe may also fall on them as they were considered close to the ouster Director.
Meanwhile, the Higher Education Ministry has started a process for the appointment of a new Director for the institution as it will not be possible for Prof. Awasthi to continue to hold the charge of two such big institutions simultaneously.
There are indications that the process for the advertisement of the post of the Director has started in the official files and it will be out to the general public by the end of the next week.
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