Morung Express News
Kohima | March 15
Following the representation forwarded to the Comptroller Auditor General of India (CAG) by the Nagaland University Teachers Association (NUTA) the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has asked the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) to submit accurate accounts of the alleged financial misappropriations and other anomalies in the Nagaland University allegedly committed by its Vice Chancellor Professor GD Sharma within a month’s time.
According to sources the CBI had placed the request to the MHRD last week for investigations not only pertinent to the charge of misappropriation by the Vice Chancellor, but other heads of the University as well. More heads are expected to roll once the CBI inquiry is completed, the sources said.
The CBI is under the purview of the Central Vigilance Commission and through it the investigation agency was directed to look into the matter as petitioned by the NUTA on March 8, the report of which was carried in The Morung Express. No information was available till filing of this report whether or not the MHRD had responded to the CBI’s submission seeking NU’s accounts.
It was informed that last year, a fact-finding committee was deputed by the Centre to investigate into the charges of wide-scale embezzlement of university funds. However, the committee failed to produce the relevant report and as such, action could not be initiated against Professor GD Sharma.
The CBI intervention came in after intense protests by both teachers and Post Graduates Students Union (PGSU) demanding removal of Professor GD Sharma for alleged misappropriation of funds and lack of initiative in development of the University. It is also reported that Sharma is in New Delhi campaigning for his own cause and lobbying hard to get out of the ruckus.
Meanwhile, the state government said that they are fully aware of all the development in the varsity because of the ongoing agitation by NUTA and PGSU, and has requested the MHRD to make an alternative arrangement, and resolve the crisis so that the student’s careers are not affected.
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