Audit team finds important documents missing from files

LUCKNOW: The MHRD-UGC audit team on Sunday browsed records and files at Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (BBAU) and found several important documents missing. The team expressed displeasure over unavailability of important papers.

The committee also found that rules were overlooked in the university’s administrative work on a number of occasions. The issue of remedial classes also came up for discussion as students complained that often classes were not held for reasons best known to university officials.

Day two of their visit was no different, as the committee witnessed another round of an ugly war of words between vice-chancellor RC Sobti, finance officer Rama Shankar and registrar Sunita Chandra over the issue of missing documents, said sources.

The audit team was so upset over the anarchy-like situation on the campus that it called off its proposed schedule of addressing the teaching faculty, non-teaching staff and students of the university on Sunday.

A group of teachers who met the committee members individually expressed concern over the differences between dalit and other students. The audit committee saw there was a conflict of interest and clear divide among top administrative officials that is the root cause of the problem.

The MHRD-UGC team is on a three day visit to the BBAU for academic, research, financial and infrastructural audit. The committee is expected to devote the entire day on Monday in preparing its report, which they will submit to UGC with their recommendations as how to address the problem.

The students are hopeful that the committee would be able to fix the problems faced by the university. BBAU has nearly 4,000 students and 50% of them are dalits who have been complaining that the university administration is discriminating against them without any reasons.