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Utkal University VC replaced

By Our Staff Reporter

BHUBANESWAR NOV. 19. The Orissa Government has superseded the Utkal University here by invoking Section 31 of the Orissa University Act and appointed a senior IAS officer, Arun Kumar Samantaray, as Administrator replacing the Vice-Chancellor, Pandav Nayak.

The State Government's action has come following allegations of largescale financial irregularities in the university.

The Governor and Chancellor of the university, M.M. Rajendran, had requested the Principal Accountant-General (Audit) to conduct a special audit of the accounts.

However, the ousted Vice-Chancellor, Mr. Nayak, alleged that he had been made a "scapegoat". The action against him was the result of a political conspiracy, he said.

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