No showcause slapped by MHRD, only info on four issues sought: AU

Prayagraj: Dismissing rumours that the ministry of human resource and development (MHRD) has served a show cause notice to Allahabad University, the officiating VC on Wednesday clarified that MHRD had only sought detailed information on four issues including discontinuation of MCA course being offered by its department of Electronics and Communication. All the information has been duly provided, said VC professor R R Tiwari..
Talking to TOI on Wednesday, Tiwari said, “The ministry had sought information on four issues including discontinuing MCA at JK institute, providing degree to the students of Ewing Christian College, admissions in DPhill programme at the department of Commerce and postgraduate courses being run in constituent colleges.”
The VC further informed that the university has informed the ministry that the decision of discontinuing MCA has been taken after following all set norms. Prof Tiwari reiterated that AU has always followed set rules in taking any decision. “ECC students are being given their degree, students at Commerce department could not be issued letters of tadmission in DPhill course because of the lockdown and PG courses are still being run at constituent colleges,” he said. Tiwari clarified that the ministry had only sought a detailed report from AU.
Notably, a couple of months ago, HRD had asked the officiating VC to refrain from taking decisions on any issue pertaining to policy on the campus.