Nagpur: While the Nagpur University Board of Deans (
BoD) on Tuesday initiated the process to disaffiliate 58 colleges, it stalled the move against Central India Institute of Mass Communication (CIIMC) in the same meeting.
Pro VC Pramod Yeole refused to comment on the issue saying “the matter would be considered in the next meeting soon”.
Sources said the BoD was under pressure from CIIMC director Sunil Mishra, who is known for filing several litigations against top NU officers and over 7,000 RTI applications.
On May 22, the NU Management Council had launched a crackdown against Mishra by taking a host of decisions against him. Besides lodging a complaint against him with Sitabuldi police for producing bogus mark sheets, it had decided to bar his entry on all of its seven premises till further orders and begin disaffiliation of CIIMC.
While cancelling this year’s affiliation to CIIMC, the university had also decided to issue show-cause notices to local enquiry committee (LEC) members on how they had given a positive recommendation when the college was working sans teachers, non-teaching staff and infrastructure. The LEC, headed by Sanjay Kanode with Madhuri Nasre and Sayali Pande as members, had given the green signal for granting affiliation to CIIMC for two years till 2019.
After receiving a slew of complaints, NU had decided to freeze CIIMC’s admission for 2018-19 session in April.
The management council had unanimously accepted the recommendations of the three-member inquiry panel, led by retired industrial judge BC Chandripure. Based on the panel’s report, the management council had decided to initiate four types of actions against Mishra over alleged duping of CIIMC students and ruining their careers by withholding their academic documents.
