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JNU student alleges plagiarism

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: A Ph.D. student from JNU, Atul Kumar Singh, has alleged that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s latest book titled “Special Category Status: A Case for Bihar” has “reproduced major portions” from his paper under the same name.

The 80-page book by Mr. Kumar is being published by Patna-based Asian Development Research Institute (ADRI). It was released by economist Lord Meghnad Desai on Friday.

Atul, who is doing his Ph.D. on “Role of State in Economic Transformation: A Case Study of Bihar”, was a faculty member at the Centre for Economic Policy and Public Finance that is being run by ADRI.

“A PIL was filed in the Patna High Court last year, pleading for grant of special category status to Bihar. Both the Central and State Governments were respondents in that case. I was asked by the director of the Centre to write a document to help the State Government in preparing its response to the PIL,” claimed Atul, who even contested Bihar State Assembly elections as an Independent in 2005.

“A few days ago I got to know that my work is being re-produced under the authorship of Nitish Kumar. Strangely my name figures in the list of acknowledgments in the book,” he added.

“In his individual capacity, Atul has sent a notice to ADRI and the Bihar Chief Minister on the issue,” said his lawyer Sanjay Parikh on Thursday.

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