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MIDNAPORE, Dec. 2.
After The Stateslnan carried a report of a sczun at Vidyasagzu' University in
its 16-Novernber issue, some of the university officials removed the issue from the central library to keep it away fi'om students, teachers and non-teaching staff there. The officials said that the hau,ker had forgotten to deliver the newspaper. Along with the copy of The Statesman, they evett got rid of three other newspapers, university sources said. The 17 November editions initially rnissing from the librar-v were later placed there but not the l6-No-
Dav)
ryal a
9W ,.ly
vember ones. The university registrar, Dr Himangshu Ghosh, said he cannot explain the disappearance of The Statesman and other newspapers. The Statesman had reported on some forged hotel bills in connection with an excursion of MSc students of botany and forestry department of VU to Neu, Digha in 1998. The bills of Pabitra Hotel of Panihati municipal welfzre society, Nerv Digha, for a 9l-nrenrbcr teatn hc-
tween 14 and !6
Octt>l-rer
1998 submittecl to thcr director of distance cducatiort in 2OO3 by Pror" NK Vcmrat,
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The.forged bill. head
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of the depzutrnent and
Mr Dilip Chakraborti,
the
non-teaching staff, as an adjustment against an advance of Rs 45.C00 drawn as expenses, were found to be "forged" by the DDI, Thmluk (Midnapore East), CID, West Bengal. As per the DDI report of l1 December 2003 (in possession of The Statesman), "the bills (no. 6836, 6837 and 6E38 ) dated 14,15 and l6 October 1998 of Pabitra
Hotel, New Digha, Midna-
pore East, were false
as
Midnapore was not bifurcated in 1998". Mr Pijush Kanti Jana, the manager of the hotel said: "The hotel u'risn't on Digha's map in 1998."
But instead of taking action against those involved in thc sciun. tlie {brged bills have bccn drrmped in cold storc hy lhc univct-sity authorities ultirreisity sources
said.-
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ritu.te rhe exPenses of an eduthe-departrnen."ii"ti"t tour- of Digha in I 998'to i"i'?"J,"tt"-,t come .,-+ another o-nth-r fraud fraud has has come vet remunera.tiorr the remtlrleratru' over the iigtrt ii-el;--;;;r
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Secember of the-unia"i"f Et-o{' ili"i.f Vce-Chancellor' Swapin Prarnanick, in which of all t"' "-""ii".r"d the heads to I"""tt*"nts of the universitY for-while "careful" ;;';;;; of warding remuneration bills offinance the i"J"l-t&"tr... to ficer. ^to th.e f"t. it has been brought autrrorlnotice of the university iils tt "t in sorr- e dePartments' blued ln suest teachers have of 3;;;;. of the number classes them' taken '"id; bYVice-Chancellor further
pointed out. that this was espeuniciallv true rn cases of the ,".sitv's self-financing courses that *h;;; ii tras been detected guest the bY submitted it Uittt " "do not conform to tne teachers
;;i;;i-;"mber of classes taken trv the incumbcnts"' "'rtr""i the self-financing "f remote sensing and like "o.rti"" se;sraPhicat information sys. tec h nol ft;:i;-Gi"i"w are taught
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shock" that there is no trme [a6i. iot the remote sensing;and for which each stu^CiS "t.""es ;.; h;; t. shell out Rs 46'000 ha"e for the course. Students about these ir"o-Ptained "i"o and fewer number ieeufaritits
teachers' ti""t"t"". taken bY the At the VidYasagar LJniversrtY' wnrcn self-financing courses muchfanwith i"uoduc?d i""i" i-", "t" being taught bY just
one to three teachers'
The rsmote sensing and the
one teacher CtS-it manned bYoverburdenecl alreadY who is the head of ;ih hi. dutiei as environme-nt thl seograpny and *""-"!L?t eht-dePartments in the universitY. "^tir;-'iice-ChanceIlor, Prof'
secPramanick, former CUTAcomi"tt.y and an executive ;ilJ" member of the WBCUthat "it ie, ,"fa fhe Statesman a,ctake alwaYs easy to G tnc agarnst ""t tion in such matters
teachers"--
auCuriouslY, the universitY anY taken not Yet thorities hive action against the head t tne bot^t y ai,d forestrY dePartment ver;f ;h;";i"ersitY' Prof' NI( s-tatr'. non-teaching the and ma ^rr,ii riilip chakraborti' hoth o1' h.?Y" *n"* ^w"r" found to bills' adjustment . i;;;;a to"Rs 45,OOO' bY the "*8""ti"gD"Pl, cID of west Benil;i;i
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VU team to Pr,ghgr,ffil; *ftr; MIDNAPORE, Jan. 20. Vidyasagar University has formed a-three-memtrer inquiry committee to probe into the scam of forged bills of around Rs 45,(X)0, which was shown as the expense incurred during the botany and foiesrry department excursin4 for thc univc'rsity's MSc sF:dents in 1998. The cornmittee was yesterday formed at the university's eiecutive council meeting, which was chaired by VU viccchancellor Prof. Swapan pramanick. The meeting begah with hcatcd exchanges among the EC menrhcrs over the matter. The house was even divided when university registrar Dr Himangshu Ghosh presented t[e issue at rhc rricering.
The committee members included
H
dean, faculty ofScience, prof. RN Jana, dean, faculty of Arts and Comnrerce kof. PK Misra and a teacher of Ccntal PK College and an EC member. IvIr Arun Das. Interestingly, the conrnrirtec'has been given no time limrt ro subnrit rheir
report. The scam had created a stir in the area after some reports on this was puhtished in The Statesman (16 November, 3 December and 24 December 2004), which has forced the VU authorities to form
the probe committee to investigate the carse.
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The then head of the departrnent, prof. NK Verma, and a non-teiching siaff of the department and an influential mem-
ber of the CPl(Mt-dominared EC. Mr Dilip Chakraborty, were allcgcdl.y in-
Health officials serve clean
scam
zod.f (P,T)
volved in the scam. They submitred the
,
chit to hospital RAMPURHAf, Jan. 20.
A
special team
of state
health departrnent officials,
bills of pabitra
Hotel of Panihati Welfare Society at New Digha, Midnapore East to the departmental head of DDE, VU, Dr Tanmoy Bhattacharya. The 9l-member col-
which came to Rampurhat
in
Birbhum yesterday, to a probe into the
conduct
allegation ttrat some people have lost their eyesiglit after havmg cataract operation al,
Iege team had their tea, lunch and dinner at the horel from 14 to 16 Ocrober t99g
Rampurhat sub-divisionaJ. hospital, concluded that tw,o
amou,lt
qach- qwrng
during the excursion. They took an of around Rs 45,000 from the
un-iversity, drawn as the expense, but these
trills
w-ere reportedly
found ,.forged",
said rhe DDI, (CID, Wdst Bengal), Tamluk, Midnapore East, in his report, dated
I
Decembcr 2003, which he-submitted to then VU registrar, Dr J Debnath. The inspector of police, DDI, Mr TK Ir1aity. said: "The bills showed thai the I
hotel had its address in Midnapore East.
This makes
it very clear thaf the bills
were forged as Midnapore was not bifurcated in 1998." The managers of Pabitra Hotel, Mr pijush Kanti Jana, Mr Gourhari Das and
Mr Chinmoy Ponda also said that the hotel "did not come up in Digha in 1998 and the cash memo no. 6836,6837 and 6836 rv-ere tbrged" as corroborated by
the DDI report. Nevertheless, the VU authorities took no penal measures against the offenders because of their reported CpI-M clout and dumped the DDI report in the cold store.
But the vice-chancellor, prof. pramanick, (former CUTA secretary and still
an executive committee member
of
the
WBCUTA), pleaded his ignorance over thc nraiter when The Statesman contacted him on l4 November 2004.
persons have lost one e)/e
to post-opera-
tive infection. Recently, a section of rthe Press reported that l0 prer-
,i
sons have become bl,ind
after being operated at Rampurha, sub-divisional hospital. A local NGO organised the eye-operation camp and the hospital authorities were in charge of the entire programme ,cn 30 November 2004. The special team led by deputy director of health
iI
seryices, Dr Satyabrata Boot, gave a clean cheat to the hospital and said rhat such wrong reports mi,,ght cause severe jolt to thr.: national eye-operation proliects. Dr Boot, however, admir
ted that two
patients,
il
Chenmanu Bitri ind Ati Hossain Khan, both from Muraroi, have lost one eye
lt
each owing to, postopera-
t'
tion infection. The hoipital authorities
NGO are now blaming each other for anCt the
the situation.
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