Assistant Grade posting in KU: Government orders Crime Branch probe


The State Government has ordered a Crime Branch investigation against six people, including former Vice-Chancellor and Pro Vice- Chancellor of the Kerala University (KU), with regard to the appointment muddle in the assistant grade posts in 2008.


In the government order 1101/12/H. Edn dated June 8, the government had recommended a Crime Branch inquiry against then KU Vice-Chancellor M K Ramachandran Nair, Pro Vice-Chancellor V Jayaprakash and four former members of the Syndicate, B S Rajeev, A A Rasheed, K A Andrews and  M P Russel regarding the irregularities in the selection and appointment of assistants based on the Upa Lok Ayukta order.The order says all of them are guilty of favouritism and nepotism in the selection of candidates for appointments. In the case of VC and PVC,legal proceedings have been recommended for withholding OMR sheets either by concealing or destroying them.



The government also asked the university to file a counter-affidavit in the petition filed by the university assistants in the Kerala High Court to nullify the Lok Ayukta order.  On December 29, 2011, Lok Ayukta Justice G Sasidharan quashed all the appointments and ordered to conduct a fresh examination.


The Lok Ayukta  had also recommended action against the six listed. Though the selection test for appointments was conducted in 2005, during the tenure of the UDF Government, the rank-list was prepared during the LDF tenure,followed by appointments.


181 were posted out of the notified 200 posts. The Opposition cried foul and alleged that more than one-third of them were either Leftist party followers or their nominees.


It was dug up by S S Sujith, then Kerala University Senate member and KSU leader, who filed a case with the Upa Lok Ayukta pointing out that large-scale corruption had taken place at the instance of Left parties and their feeder organisations.


The Upa Lok Ayukta in 2008 had asked the officials of the KU to produce around  40,000 answersheets of the examination but the latter failed to produce it. KU cut a sorry figure after its two-member team was sent to a high-security printing press in Uttar Pradesh to find out the answersheets, though the evaluation itself was admittedly over and the same  was supposed to be in the custody of the varsity.


An inquiry commission headed by retired District Judge N Sukumaran had also found many of the accused in the scam guilty in its report submitted on December 10, 2010.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

dear kerala university please conduct the exam again before its too late