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UNIVERSITIES IN SIEGE OF
INTERNAL CHAOS
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University education in the region started six decades ago ,and hence university is an imagery for many pandits even today.Kolkota,Mumbai and Tamil unversities had passed through three centuries at the minimum.a FEW MORE MILES the NE ought to go before it meets a working nirban and makes university sensible to those who matter.
Half a dozen or, even a dozen unversities- central or regional- are on the cards in the region.The oldest in the region- Gauhati University[ misspelt as Guwahati University by all stubborn,outlandish Bank managers from rest of India] is shrinking and not expanding, as predicted by the National Knowledge Commission.
University education in the region started six decades ago ,and hence university is an imagery for many pandits even today.Kolkota,Mumbai and Tamil unversities had passed through three centuries at the minimum.a FEW MORE MILES the NE ought to go before it meets a working nirban and makes university sensible to those who matter.
Half a dozen or, even a dozen unversities- central or regional- are on the cards in the region.The oldest in the region- Gauhati University[ misspelt as Guwahati University by all stubborn,outlandish Bank managers from rest of India] is shrinking and not expanding, as predicted by the National Knowledge Commission.
Harvard University, as far as law faculty is concerned has about 40 specializations and could open a few more.Once I nearly got chance to be there but funding and other matters stood on the way for middle class people .Just one example- could be for physical sciences as well.A beauty of the shrinking university with all the imaginable deficiencies lies in its resilience to cope with unimagined challenges.
Before two or three decades,one Justice Sharma committee, after one -monthlong morning- to- dusk enquiry that we had physically witnessed, had cleansed up GU and, then year before last for misappropiation of about half a crore, the CBI,on GUTA's persistent demand had intruded in GU,hauled up all files. In the past, some had been sacked and some penalised.A young man coincidentally passed away.
Before two or three decades,one Justice Sharma committee, after one -monthlong morning- to- dusk enquiry that we had physically witnessed, had cleansed up GU and, then year before last for misappropiation of about half a crore, the CBI,on GUTA's persistent demand had intruded in GU,hauled up all files. In the past, some had been sacked and some penalised.A young man coincidentally passed away.
The other day, there is reportedly a minor hiccup in Manipur University for selection of some posts and vigitante groups had their field day.Something is menacingly and maliciously wrong in that Denmark or, mini-France where revolution occurs at the drop of a hat.
NO comment on merits till an enquiry is conducted by a high court judge and another by PMO's agency like the CBI.There had never been a protest from professors or NGOs for opening only 3 faculties or schools[ a faculty can open several department] out of 4 as it has been universally done in all the multifaculty unversities in the world by permanently excluding one Faculty [ is it law, I am not sure ?] for mischievous reasons.99% of the professors who had been educated in multi-faculty universities knew that they collectively denied the existence of a faculty for 3 decades and deprived their own children and young ones for some invisible agenda or cult.
NO comment on merits till an enquiry is conducted by a high court judge and another by PMO's agency like the CBI.There had never been a protest from professors or NGOs for opening only 3 faculties or schools[ a faculty can open several department] out of 4 as it has been universally done in all the multifaculty unversities in the world by permanently excluding one Faculty [ is it law, I am not sure ?] for mischievous reasons.99% of the professors who had been educated in multi-faculty universities knew that they collectively denied the existence of a faculty for 3 decades and deprived their own children and young ones for some invisible agenda or cult.
.This is the genuine issue which petty chancellors never addressed or even ignored along with the academics in towering positions of all hues.For MU to be fair, it has missed the opportunity to be cleansed up in mid-1980s or, 1990s.We did not do much to contribute to MU save writing article in DMC magazine in 1964 or pamphlateering in 1979 for setting up MU on a war footing.We had deep restraint since 1979 till date on thte subject although we are articulate on many a regional issue whatever.
It is too late to wash MU- the white has changed so much so that literally ,it looks like permanent brown or black due to chronic toxification or, permanent decolouration.How to de-toxify ?A CBI inquiry and a judicial enquiry if the MU-EC so desires can clean up 30% OF THE DIRTY linen.
We do not think that the handful of oligarchs and feudal lords in MU would like cleaning up the MU.
Besides,at least four students'
bodies operate in addition to the official body- the MUSU.Any VC entangled in a crisis situation can work out solutions by inviting the official body of students and the other four private or non-official bodies including the tribes' body that represents 9 by 10th of Manipur's overall territory and hence their territorial strength as observers without leaving out one or two due to personal repugnance.It could be done and may not be an uphil task for EC or VC of MU or any other EC in similar situation.
We in the GU welcome all the cleaning up steps unlike the new czars or, elsewhere.A couple of years back, when we were in the GU court and EC we actively supported CBI inquiry in GU.Hence, some petty unmanagable clerks- one or, two- obstruct all my retirement dues for years and tried their best to club me with some of the scandalised individuals- their own clansmen.
We handle the issues largely of personal nature, without further sharpening the apparent national contradictions on the wrong note of history and facilitating unintended consequences to fill in the vacuum created by the conspiratorsor motivated trouble makers.
If MUTA,MU-EC are honest[ really,unlike Pamheiba's massacre of all Burmese of groom party disguised as petty Meetei princess] and all the stakeholders care a bit for MU, all of them unanimously could ask for immediate CBI inquiry on bigger issues as references since 1980 till date- to start with.We hope they can do it if they desire to clean up the university.
If MUTA,MU-EC are honest[ really,unlike Pamheiba's massacre of all Burmese of groom party disguised as petty Meetei princess] and all the stakeholders care a bit for MU, all of them unanimously could ask for immediate CBI inquiry on bigger issues as references since 1980 till date- to start with.We hope they can do it if they desire to clean up the university.
There is a bubble of honesty in the vast ocean of inscrutable and insatiable sharks in civil society and higher institutions and its hyperlinks.If GU can invite CBI via PMO and state government for misappropriation of 50 lakhs, why MU should shy away from CBI for the suspected misappropriation of crores, largely on purchases for which Manipur as harbinger is widely known outside.
NE universities - all of them -need periodic clean up,once a decade to start with.Let us clean up ourselves once in every decade.One selection as reported by dailies yesterday is not at all a national issue but making MU dirty for 3 decades is a common concern for every citizen or civil society whose tax run the universities- be it for GU or MU or, Nagaland University whatever.
NE universities - all of them -need periodic clean up,once a decade to start with.Let us clean up ourselves once in every decade.One selection as reported by dailies yesterday is not at all a national issue but making MU dirty for 3 decades is a common concern for every citizen or civil society whose tax run the universities- be it for GU or MU or, Nagaland University whatever.
Time to open up the missing word- honesty in our proud heritage dictionary.This word had been found missing for decades in India and, particularly in the region- Manipur University ,or one of its rare breed as the macot on this count. University academics and CSO have a definite role to advance the agenda in a sustained way .Regional universities as a whole need a periodic clean up and revitalisation,let alone the loud slogan of world class university.Univerisity belongs nor merely to the mafia- like spoilers but also to all stakeholders - tax payers,consumers of knowledge, mediamen and above all- 'we the people', the total sovereign, neither a despot nor oligarch.
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