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AGITATING STAFF HOLD CLASSES UNDER TREES

THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS | 02-05-2011 | PAGE 2

     Teaching staff under the leadership of P.R.Anbudurai, Principal-in-Charge of the American College have started conducting compensatory classes under tree shades from Friday (April 29, 2011). Hence, students who have not attended their major, innovative, supportive, life skill and Choice Based Credit System (CBCS), and Part IV (NSS, NCC, SLP, PEd) courses, have been requested to attend classes from Monday, PR Anbudurai said here on Sunday (01-05-2011).
    Addressing a press meet, Anbudurai said that they were forced to conduct classes under the trees as the administration under Mohan was refusing to open the classrooms in spite of negotiation meeting convened by a committee consisting of Syndicate Members of Madurai Kamaraj University.
     Classes were stopped after the violence on the campus on March 14, he said.
    The refusal to open up the classrooms clearly shows that the present illegal occupants of the administration were more bothered about proving that they were in charge of the administration rether than the cause of serving the interests of students, he said.
    He charged that the court direction, in the judgement of honourable Justice K. Venkatraman, in the writ petition number 3493 of 2011 dated April 5,2011, to explore the possiblity of conducting the examinations after a month as per high level committee recommendation was ignored.
    Instead, acting principal Mohan (the illegal occupant) started conducting examinations which was arbitrary and illegal as unauthorized persons were in the process of conducting the examinations.
   Out of 419 courses, examinations for only 294 courses were scheduled and 125 courses have been left out in the present examinations conducted by the (illegal) administration (run by Mohan, Bishop's appointee), he charged.
    He flayed the MKU which has the statutory responsiblity of supervising and regulating the examinations in autonomous colleges, has remained a mute spectator and provided scope for illegal examinations to continue, he charged.
    What we need at this hour is a supervising body to rectify these anomalies in the examination process and the body can be either from university or from government.
    However, both university and the government or even the High Level Committee were silent over the issue which is unusual and quite worrying, he stated.