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Delhi University council accepts apex panel recommendations

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Sexual harassment case against professor

NEW DELHI: Delhi University’s Executive Council has accepted the recommendations of the Apex Complaints Committee that looked into charges of sexual harassment levelled against Prof. Bidyut Chakravarty.

Warning

“The report of the Committee was placed at the meeting and it was decided to follow all its recommendations on the disciplinary action against Prof. Chakravarty which were: a) A letter of warning should be issued to him; b) He should be asked to step down from the directorship of Gandhi Bhavan; and c) He should be debarred from all administrative posts and supervisory duties in the University for a period of three years,” said Executive Council member Som Dutta Sharma.

The Apex Complaints Committee had decided to set up an inquiry committee to look into allegations of sexual and mental harassment made against Prof. Chakravarty by the Officer on Special Duty at Gandhi Bhavan, Anamika Sharma. The issue of handing over the University College of Medical Sciences (UCMS) to the Delhi Government was also discussed at the meeting.

“The Council has passed a resolution that this proposal was not acceptable to the University and UCMS should not be given to the Government,” said another member.

Anguish

A section of the University, including Delhi University Teachers’ Association, has expressed anguish over this “proposal worked out by the Union Cabinet and the Delhi Government without first inviting the views of the statutory bodies of Delhi University responsible for creating, maintaining and running the UCMS.”

“University College of Medical Sciences was established pursuant to and on the basis of the proposal from Delhi University. As a medical college requires an attached hospital for the purposes of training students, initially Safdarjung Hospital and subsequently Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital were attached to UCMS. Right from its inception, UCMS has been run and controlled by the University. Either the GTB Hospital should be handed over to the University or it should be provided funds to establish a new hospital,” DUTA president Aditya Narayan Misra had said recently.

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