SHILLONG: The NEHU Teachers’ Association (NEHUTA) has demanded the resignation of Vice Chancellor S.K Srivastava after he admitted to tampering the draft minutes of the May 15 executive council meeting.
In a statement to the media issued on Saturday, NEHUTA said since the VC, in his letter to the office of the President, who is the Visitor of NEHU, and the MHRD, had admitted to his mistake, he should resign on moral grounds.
“Instead it is ironical that he is passing the buck to junior officers of the University for the wrongful act of sending a doctored minutes signed by Prof. S.K. Srivastava,” said NEHUTA leader X.P Mao in the statement.
While the representation sent to the visitor carried a number 529, which was not taken into cognizance either by MHRD or the Visitor’s office, the copy of the same letter to MHRD Deputy Secretary is taken into cognizance and he responded by citing some instructions from the Visitor, the statement mentioned.
“The letter from MHRD on June 12 was a clear subversion of university’s academic council and executive council resolutions already taken on HASA, which attempts to browbeat EC into submission.”
NEHUTA clarified that this letter was not written by the Visitor’s office but by MHRD Deputy Secretary making several baseless allegations and statements based on one tampered minute. NEHU’s clarification said that the VC corrected the tampered minutes, but the statement upheld the MHRD letter based on the wrong minutes.
NEHUTA also demanded that the Visitor should initiate an impartial inquiry into Srivastava’s tampering “leading to grave statutory violations”.
