Akhilesh Yadav
Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) secretary Gaurav Bhatia rubbished a news report alleging he was removed today from the post of additional advocate general (AAG) of Uttar Pradesh, saying that he had filed his request to be relieved more than a month back.
RMLNLU Lucknow fourth-year students decided not to submit their complaint application against the university to Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav. In the application, the students had complained about poor quality placements, administration and faculty in the university to Yadav. In an informal meeting with him yesterday, the batch’s representatives agreed to attempt resolving the matter internally with the university’s vice chancellor (VC).
The students met RMLNLU VC professor Balraj Chauhan today, and had a three-hour long discussion with him in which, according to authoritative sources on campus, all pressing issues including retention of good faculty, placements and “everything the students really wanted to talk about” were touched.
The next meeting of the students with the VC is scheduled for 6 September.
RMLNLU Lucknow students wrote to Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav yesterday, complaining about poor placements of the batches graduating in years 2011 and 2012, generally poor campus placement efforts, lackadaisical administration, a lack of professionalism of the university’s assistant registrar, degradation in faculty quality, and no redressal of student grievances.
The students requested Yadav, who is also the university’s chancellor, to set up a student body to which the faculty and the university administration would be accountable for satisfactorily addressing student grievances.
The complaining students noted in the application that decisions directly affecting the students, such as those relating to the mess fee and internet access, were taken in a non-transparent manner without student vote.
Grievances against the assistant registrar included lack of action taken to solve problems related to internet connectivity despite repeated complaints, maintaining heavily anomalous records of repeat examinations’ marks, and failure to enforce security measures to check illegal entry and stay of graduated or suspended students in the university campus and hostels.
RMLNLU vice chancellor professor Balraj Chauhan told Legally India that he was holding a meeting with the students who had signed the application later today.
He said: “See the statements of our university and compare them with other universities. There are problems, the internet supply comes from BSNL, there are local faults, we need more teachers, I am short-staffed. “The university is run by the chancellor and the government, it is a government-funded university. You see, there are certain issues related to payment. Some things are partially true, partially wrong. Everything they expect from me and I must provide those facilities, but it is also in the hands of the government service providers,” he added. [Application]