Nalsar vice chancellor Veer Singh was accused of “favouritism, abuse of authority, gross academic indiscipline and financial irregularities”, by Supreme Court and High Court justices in the report dated September 2011.
Legally India had filed a Right to Information (RTI) Act request with Nalsar’s information officer B Nagalakshmi on 12 January 2012 seeking a copy of the report, which Times of India (TOI) has now obtained after it “incidentally came to light after a team of auditors from the state stumbled upon it last Friday”.
Legally India has not received a copy of the report to date and Singh, when contacted by Legally India two weeks ago declined to comment.
TOI said that the report of a high level committee of Andhra Pradesh High Court judges headed by former Supreme Court judge Justice Syed Shah Mohammed Quadri, found an “unbridled concentration of power in the hands of vice chancellor, favouritism, abuse of authority, gross academic indiscipline, financial irregularities were jeopardizing the founding objective of the university”.
“The decentralisation of power and authority in the VC’s office is necessary to prevent and check widespread misuse”, added the report.
The report also stated that “it is a matter of urgency that necessary statutes and regulations are put in place to safeguard against abuse of discretionary power by those in the management of Nalsar”, according to TOI, and noted gross irregularities in tendering of building contracts at the institute, which were awarded through nomination and not to the lowest bidder.
The report also highlighted “most favoured” faculty member Dr Vijender Kumar, and how “rules were bent, violated, bypassed to benefit him financially in all conceivable ways”. The committee found that Singh had turned a blind eye to Kumar’s unauthorised use of university furniture and car, simultaneously appointed him as proctor and deputy registrar and gave him extra pay for assignments, reported TOI.
The report also reveals financial irregularities, such as “a head ‘miscellaneous expenditure’ that had eaten away lakhs of rupees without any record”.
Recommendations of the committee include a requirement to oversee honorarium dispatches, which are also subject of abuse by “the VC and registrar and Vijender Kumar” presently, according to TOI. The committee also expressed concern over Nalsar’s shifting of focus to “fund-generating distance education”, which had spread “dissatisfaction among its students and faculty”.
TOI had in December reported sexual harassment charges against Singh by Nalsar dean of academic affairs Amita Dhanda, who alleged she had received an email containing sexual innuendo from him. Singh had denied the allegations, stating that “it was abnormal to see a sexual connotation in the same”, and that Dhanda had “misinterpreted the contents”.
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The problem with all NLU's in that they are very small in sizes and all power is given to very few ppl. Students are well aware of it but cant raise a voice as adm will jeopardize their career.
Faculty in all these NLUs is useless and mostly the ones's close to VC, Registrar are appointed.
A committee must be set up to monitor the functioning of all NLUs...
We are happy that the misdeeds have come to the fore. This should precipitate a change in the management which is what is earnestly expected by everyone.
We would like to get ride of the malaise in the system and move forward. We will be back with a band. Nope. Not final days.
Lets hope this time Certain People who "teach" students about CLAT doesn't end up phoning the Successful Candidates like last time.
Phoning the successful candidates? What is that supposed to mean?
Students of the organizing university appointed arbitrarily to "guide" Law School aspirants would call up the successful candidates and counsel them into preferring this certain college over NALSAR, Hyderabad. But, how? Well, they began with calling up the Bengalis first - told them that they'd be close to this said university, that in NALSAR the bongs are "cornered", that NALSAR is "sooo far from the city", that NALSAR has "leopards roaming around", etc etc. Not content with these accusations, they turned on a website run by the students of NALSAR and accused them of "lobbying" - of course, vocab was never a strong point of these students. Notwithstanding all of that, they were successful in convincing quite a few smart people into the belief that NALSAR is a highly politicized, regionalistic law school where everyone just hated everyone. The only difficult problem here was - it wasn't crowded and that it didn't adopt "different pedagogies" in character building - washing your plates for example, or living in a kitchen/mess converted into a dorm because the hostels are, umm, well, let's just leave it there.
Instead of making strong claims, try to treat it.
dabang what were you saying????
I m frm an NLU and i know how funds r used and students are always neglected
Yeah yeah, all spineless people have the same excuses. Anyone who wants change has to take a risk. If the Nalsarites were all shivering behind the curtains instead of standing up and saying that Veer Singh's policies are unacceptable, and if all the faculty were equally cowardly, this report would never have been written and things would never change.
If you don't have the guts to take a risk and say what you think, may be you deserve an SOB VC. Clearly you don't care enough to remove him...
TAKE! Finally! Someone here who knows proper english.
Thank you.
Stop over reacting on this piece of news article. NALSAR is NALSAR because of its students and alumni, not because of the administration. Vice Chancellors come and go. It might be the case that NALSAR was unlucky to have a bad vice chancellor. But, his term is getting over.
The law school still has the highest brand value in the best of law firms, both in India and abroad along with having the strongest reputation in Universities like Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard and Yale. NALSAR was adjudged the national winners of the points based ranking setup by legallyindia.
So basically, stop drawing conclusions about the quality of the law school on the basis of administrative problems.
I can understand the trauma which you are going through.
Okay... ..no? You guys are early with your ridiculous 'marketing' strategies for CLAT! Let's not get carried away. While NALSAR is a good law school, your sweeping statements are just absurd.
NLS (and even NUJS - go check 2010 or even 2011 placement stats) obviously has better brand value in the best law firms. NLS (and even NUJS, AGAIN) has seen more students go to the best universities in the world. But, this is NOT what this article is about.
Tell me, how can you admit that your law school is mismanaged and still claim to have the best law school? Clearly, those who RUN an institution are quite irrelevant in the scheme of things as you see them! To answer that, let me just name a few people who've made a WORLD of a difference by running the top law schools - Madhav Menon, MP Singh, Ranbir Singh.
I hope they also catch hold of the entire bunch of students (10 in every batch?) who come through back-door entry EVERY YEAR and throw them out! NALSAR is a joke in the name of a national law university.
Admissions to top World Universities are not dependent on CLAT preferences. Are they?
Placements are not dependent on CLAT preferences. Are they?
Faculty and Academics are not dependent on CLAT preferences. Are they?
Life could have been easier had it been the case, but unfortunately it is not. I wish Top World Universities, Law Firms etc. would have just looked into the "preference list".
Do make a pickle out of that preference list, and yeah! send some to Kolkata also. I will taste it and tell you whether your business of pickle can actually be successfully run or not [Given that you are not landing anywhere after 5 years]
While administration and students achievements are distinct, there is surely a relation between the administration and quality of University. Apart from students, we all know that whatever NALSAR is today is because of Prof. Ranbir Singh (If not solely, then substantially).
Administration does play a vital role. Example, NLIU {The moment Prof. Balraj Chauhan left it, it had been under problems}.
The same kind of situation may be faced by even NUJS too if administration turns out to be pathetic. They were the administrators (Prof. Madhana Menon - NLSIU and NUJS, Prof. Ranbir Singh - NALSAR and NLUD, and Prof. M.P. Singh - NUJS) who contributed in the making of their respective universities sustainability.
If you are just ruling out the relation of a University and its Administration, then I am really sorry, I will disagree.
And since you admit that student achievements are not affected, the kind of vitriol that has been profferred is unjustified - NALSAR students continue to do brilliantly in whatever they do, and yeah, they also flock to top universities abroad. More than others, perhaps. After all, there MUST be a reason NUJS has more NALSAR alumni on its faculty than its own students. ;) And that's the position we hope will change when the new administration is ushered in.
Since you have mentioned that NALSAR alumni are in NUJS, I need to clarify the same.
NUJS Alumni who are here INITIALLY WANTED to GO TO NALSAR (Please read this again). But,because of the POOR ADMINISTRATION THEY DID NOT GO THERE (Please read this again). You may ask your alumni (who are at NUJS) if you want to. The reason why they opted for NUJS is because of the independence which one gets here, and the trend which has been set by Prof. M.P. Singh (Again because of a GREAT ADMINISTRATOR).
"After all, there MUST be a reason NUJS has more NALSAR alumni on its faculty than its own students. ;) " - I hope my reply helped you a lot.
There, my friend, lies the real answer. ADMINISTRATION. Good administration is the difference in attracting mediocre and an outstanding faculty. Your entire argument is weak because you're stressing entirely on (1) a student body's struggle against an admittedly mismanaged university, and (2) CLAT preferences. At the same time, you're in complete denial over a poor administration pulling a good law school down. Ridiculous indeed.
If you must know, along with a very large number of students in my batch, I did not write the NALSAR entrance exam. NLS I did. NUJS was my second preference, not NALSAR. There is such a thing as being too presumptuous - considering the sweeping statements and the misplaced assumptions that clearly is a lesson your law school has failed to impart. If you're going to come on this forum and openly deny that NALSAR has back-door admission entries, then we both know just how much of a bare faced lie that would be. Mismanagement is a sclerosis which rots the finest of institutions. While I'm completely with the NALSAR student body's struggle to throw those responsible for the mess, there is no denying that there IS a mess.
Put that aside - any law school student at a top law school knows just how capable those who constitute the student bodies be it at NLS, NUJS or NALSAR are. Mismanagement is an obvious disadvantage for one of these law schools. I prey that such occurrences do not hinder NLS and NUJS, and that while it does hinder NALSAR, that it deals with it effectively.
Please try and understand.......Its been a long time since backdoors were admitted in NALSAR......this only happened in the regime of Ranbir Singh.....I know that there has not been a single back door admitted after the CLAT was introduced.
Anyone in the law school community would vouch for this fact. And for mud slinging and false statements, I dont care, you can go on with that.
XYZ.
fool me once, shame on you
fool me twice, shame on preferably NLS or NUJS but not NALSAR
Here is the new addition to the existing [already good] faculty of NUJS - nujs.edu/faculty/jose-p-verghese.html
I guess the long standing ranking of NALSAR is not due to the fact that India Today rated it as one of the better colleges. It is because of the achievements which were made by the students.
Honestly speaking, before the CLAT had come, every year 5 to 6 students used to leave NUJS to join NALSAR. This was because entrance exams of NUJS used to take place before NALSAR. Trust me, most of the students if given an option would still take NALSAR over NUJS. Admittedly, NLS was preferred over NALSAR, but, NALSAR was a very clear preference over NUJS. India Today was not the reason behind these preferences, but, infrastructure, nation wide recognition of NALSAR and other nuanced details made students choose NALSAR over NUJS.
On a separate note, I would like to tell the present study body at NALSAR that this is a tough time which we are facing, but, till the time you can work hard and do well at the national and international level, all this would just be just so much of inconsequential gossip.
NALSARITE
NLS too had the KT Thomas report. Did you file an RTI to get it? Go ahead publish that as well.
Go after Ranbir. See what is happening in NLU Delhi.
To others.
Isn't it good that systemic ills are being cured by this report? NALSAR will be a better place after this.
Yes Kian please get hold of the reports.... dig up the shit that is there in bhopal as well ... this would your best tryst with investigative journalism trust me...
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