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Daltonganj June 18: All is not well between the teaching fraternity and the Vice Chancellor of the Nilamber Pitamber University (NPU) in Daltonganj.
The professional bonding is getting fragile. The professional trust is deficit and there is a deep sense of distrust in each other. There is an undercurrent of disharmony between the two, said sources.
Allegations of Double Standards in Attendance and Leave
Sources said the Vice Chancellor, Dr Prof Dinesh Kumar Singh, has his whims and fancies in running the university where rules and regulations ought to have been followed.
Sources said the teaching and non-teaching personnel are directed to be in time and regular but the Vice Chancellor who whenever goes out for a meeting in Ranchi, overstays there for days together, citing ‘work in this office or that office or meeting this officer or that officer’.
VC’s itinerary is a detailed and well-planned affair. It’s never chaotic. Then how comes this diversion or digression of journey, stay etc, quipped sources.
The luxury of leave, if it is at all permissible, should be for all and not for any selected few, is the refrain of the university.
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VC Responds to Faculty Dissatisfaction
This correspondent met the Vice Chancellor Dr Prof Dinesh Kumar Singh on Tuesday, when the registrar in charge Dr S K Mishra was very much there and asked him as to why the teachers are not happy with his style of functioning. Pensioners too have their own woes.
The VC was most candid when he said, “There is no resentment at all. It’s only a matter of how one looks at things.”
“What wrong is if our learned teachers are reminded to improve footfall of the students in the campus. Where is the flaw on the part of the VC if the teachers are asked to revive the classroom teaching? These are the basic tenets of the teachers,” quipped the VC.
“I believe no teacher will disagree with me if I ask the teacher to stay put in the campus for at least 5 hours a working day,” said the VC.
Concerns Over Encroachments and Administrative Inaction
“See quite recently I had been to JS College in Daltonganj. I found tell-tale signs of encroachment of the college room and land,” Dr Singh said.
“When I directed the professor in charge of the JS College to lodge an FIR against the unknown person or persons who have so encroached upon the college land etc, the professor in charge is developing cold feet,” he added.
“Tell me such a lily livered head of any institution can deliver results. When I ask for action, officials just start looking the other way,” the VC charged.
The professor in charge of the JS college is more in panic than the encroachers, he said with a tinge of satire.
“I remain in touch with the university round the clock whenever I am out of the station for multiple works and to say that I leave the university in lurch is unfounded”, explained the VC.
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Delayed Degree Issuance and Middlemen Troubles
Interrupted here by this correspondent that inordinate delay is shown in the deliverance of the degrees to which the VC said, “Students in need of degrees fall in the well laid trap of middlemen. These middlemen exert pressure just for their own commission which they extract from the gullible students.”
“I got a phone call for degree where the student claimed he had filed his request for degree a month ago. When my officers showed his case, it was just two days ago that the said student had filed a petition for the degree. Such is the quantum of lie here,” Dr Singh said in quite a heavy tone.
Administrative Gaps and Funding Challenges
The VC cell is without PA to VC over the last around a month or so. Asked about it, he said, “I will put someone in place here.”
On the disengagement of the class 12 teaching in the session 2025-26 from the constituent colleges here where the fate of a sizable number of non-teaching and teaching personnel on the remuneration roll of the JAC (Jharkhand Academic Council) hangs in balance, the VC made it clear “Give us fund to pay them. They be with the colleges where they are. But the university should be given allotment for them to remain in the employment otherwise from where the university will pay them or for what when their engagement was not done by the university.”
“The university acknowledges these JAC work force’s contribution but what matters most is the fund for them. The university has no wherewithal for them,” he repeated.
The university is all tense about the June 26 hearing in the Jharkhand High Court in regard to the outsourcing agency.
“If the judgement comes in favour of the university, it will ease the crunch of the human resources but in the event of any adverse situation, the university will approach the HRD”, informed the VC.
