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The V-C sees no evil….

Nearly a month after Delhi University’s Executive Council accepted the recommendations of the Apex Complaints Committee looking into charges of sexual harassment against Prof. Bidyut Chakravarty levelled by an employee of Gandhi Bhavan, the Democratic Teachers’ Front has expressed its concern at the manner in which Vice-Chancellor Deepak Pental has “flouted” Ordinance XV (D) dealing with sexual harassment.

“Prof. Pental presented to the Council a note summarising the report of the committee on the complaint against Prof. Chakravarty. Prof. Pental did not place the complete report as he was required to do under the Ordinance. It has come to our notice that three significant issues in the report had been omitted in that note,” alleged DTF president Sanjaya Kumar Bohidar.

“First, the report had recommended setting up of a broader enquiry committee to examine the complaints of the teachers, students and karamcharis of the Department of Political Science against the conduct of Prof. Chakravarty who was its head. Second, the report notes that despite repeatedly writing to the Vice-Chancellor that in accordance with the said ordinance Prof. Chakravarty be suspended from all his posts during the process of inquiry, this was not done,” he added “Third, the report had also noted that in violation of the ordinance, the administration instituted an inquiry into charges made by Prof. Chakravarty against the complainant and the witnesses after the complaint was made against him. Not reporting these observations and recommendations of the committee is unacceptable as it deprived the Council an opportunity to deliberate on these issues,” Mr. Bohidar said.

The DTF has demanded that Prof. Pental make the report available to all the Council members and Prof. Chakravarty be barred from taking up supervisory work as recommended by the committee.

Aligarh Muslim University, closed sine die on September 17 following violence and arson in the wake of a male student’s murder on the campus, will reopen on November 6 with resumption of teaching in a phased manner.

“Firstly, studies at J. N. Medical College, Sir Ziauddin Dental College, Z. H. College of Engineering and Technology and classes from Nursery to XII, barring Class XI, will commence from November 6,” announced a University spokesperson on Wednesday.

“Post-graduate classes at the Faculties of Science, Life Sciences, Management, Agricultural Sciences, Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit and studies for Class XI will start in the second phase from November 13. In the third phase beginning November 19, post-graduate classes will be resumed at the Faculties of Arts, Social Sciences, Commerce, Theology and Law,” he said. The under-graduate classes at the Faculties of Science, Life Sciences and all courses of the Faculty of Unani Medicine will begin from November 23. In the last phase beginning November 27, under-graduate courses at the Faculties of Arts, Social Sciences, Commerce, Theology, Law and all courses in the polytechnic for boys and girls will get under way.

All the students have been advised to report at their respective halls of residence a day before the start of their classes.

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University will begin a four-week training programme later this week for 50 officers of the Delhi police that will be inaugurated by Police Commissioner Y. S. Dadwal. The programme aims at improving the functioning of serving officers by fine-tuning their knowledge in areas including the Indian Penal Code, the Criminal Procedure Code and the Indian Evidence Act. It will also focus on sensitising the officers by equipping them with social, leg al and human rights perspectives for a balanced functioning and efficient law enforcement.

Pearl School of Business in partnership with the School of Management at the Asian Institute of Technology has announced admissions for the Doctor of Business Administration programme designed specially for executives.

The programme offers art and craft of management research to managers, administrators, owners and entrepreneurs. It will aim at enhancing their knowledge of advanced management theories and build up their skills to improve their intellectual capabilit ies, strategic thinking and ability to investigate complex managerial issues for generating innovative ideas.

Applications for the programme, which begins in January next year, can be sent up to November 26.

Parul Sharma

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