By Our Reporter
SHILLONG: Accusing the Governor Ranjit Shekhar Mooshahary of twisting facts to show the CMJ University (CMJU) in poor light, the Chancellor of the university, Chandra Mohan Jha, on Saturday submitted a clarification to the Education Minister RC Laloo refuting the allegations levelled against the university.
The legal advisor of Chandra Mohan Jha (CMJ) Foundation, SP Sharma, submitted the clarification on behalf of CM Jha.
The Governor, who is also the Visitor of CMJU, had sought for the dissolution of the university in the interest of maintaining of proper standards of higher education in the State. The State Regulatory Board for Higher Education also accepted the recommendations of the Governor for closure of the University.
Moreover, Mooshahary had on Friday suggested the State Government to transfer the investigation into the CMJU anomalies to the CBI in case the State CID is finding it difficult to handle the probe in view of the extensive ramifications of the case.
“Most of the allegations (of the Governor) are unfounded and completely devoid of truth and some of them are just perceptions and opinions of the Visitor which he erroneously mentions as established facts,” CM Jha said in the representation made to the Education Minister.
According to Jha, the Visitor had deliberately omitted certain facts from media and selectively chosen to display only issues designed to damage the reputation of the university.
With respect to the withdrawal of endowment fund amounting to Rs 2 crore, Jha clarified that “the university already has an endowment fund of Rs 565 lakh with it, details of which has been provided to the State Government, the UGC and the Visitor.”
Meanwhile, addressing a press conference here on Saturday the legal adviser of CMJ Foundation alleged that the Governor is “trying to be the complainant, the investigator and the judge in the case at hand.”
“How can the university be dissolved before the investigation of the CID is over,” he questioned.
Reacting to a query on why the Chancellor of the university is not surrendering before the authorities, Sharma said that he would advise Jha to cooperate with the law enforcing agencies.
Sharma also alleged that certain rival universities, particularly from Assam, may be issuing fake certificates and instigating the entire controversy against CMJU.
“No off-campus of the university has been set up in India although
scounselling centres are functioning,” he said.
When asked about the qualification of Chandra Mohan Jha, he said that he is an MA even as he claimed that qualification does not matter for a chancellor.
It may be mentioned that University Grants Commission (UGC) has constituted a nine-member committee for the inspection of CMJU.