SHILLONG: Former Rajya Sabha member Dr BB Dutta has been named in a three-member fact finding committee for Vishwa Bharati University (VBU), Shantiniketan, West Bengal which has of late been involved in a series of anti-academic activities that has tarnished the university’s reputation.
Dr Dutta said that the purpose of the committee is to check all irregularities and illegalities in administrative matters, examination, estate, financial and other matters of the university besides recommending suitable action.
VBU is in a state of paralysis for quite sometime now. This has been continuing since the theft of the Nobel Prize of Rabindranath Tagore from the premises of the university as people are agitated about it.
The HRD Ministry has now constituted the committee under the chairmanship of Justice Sakharam Singh Yadav, former Justice, High Court of Allahabad besides Dilip K Chakrabarti, Professor, South Asian Archaeology, University of Cambridge as the third member.
The Joint Registrar, VBU, Soumendra Sen will function as coordinator from the side of the university in connection with the inquiry by the committee whereas the Deputy Registrar, VBU, Sanjay Ghosh will assist the Registrar.
The committee has to submit its report to the Union HRD Ministry by April.
