Saturday, March 27, 2010
NIT Director's Resignation Declined
HRD Minister said the Director was forced to resign under pressure, and that such a resignation was not acceptable.
27th Mar, 2010: Three days after Y V Rao, the Director of the National Intitute Of Technology (NIT), Warangal, resigned as a result of student agitations that began on Monday this week, the Minister of State for Human Resource Development (Higher Education) Daggubati Purandeswari refused to acknowledge the resignation.
Requesting Y V Rao to take a leave for a while, she said the Director was forced to resign under pressure, and that such a resignation was not acceptable. She also said that the government will take a stance on the matter after all records are analysed.
Y V Rao had been officiating as NIT Director for the past 4 years, and is facing several allegations, including those of corruption and of irregularities in the administration. He was also accused of filing ragging cases against students from the Telangana region.
Students then resorted to mass protests, demanding that Rao, along with in-charge registrar ASP Rao, resign.
Requesting Y V Rao to take a leave for a while, she said the Director was forced to resign under pressure, and that such a resignation was not acceptable. She also said that the government will take a stance on the matter after all records are analysed.
Y V Rao had been officiating as NIT Director for the past 4 years, and is facing several allegations, including those of corruption and of irregularities in the administration. He was also accused of filing ragging cases against students from the Telangana region.
Students then resorted to mass protests, demanding that Rao, along with in-charge registrar ASP Rao, resign.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
NIT Warangal director, registrar quit after students' protest
The director and the registrar of the National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Andhra Pradesh's Warangal town have announced their decision to quit following massive protests by students who alleged embezzlement of funds.
Director Y V Rao and in-charge registrar C S P Rao announced their resignations late Wednesday after three hours of protests by students.
Tension prevailed on the NIT campus as over 5,000 students laid siege to the director's office demanding his resignation over the alleged misappropriation of Rs.40 crore allotted by the union human resource development (HRD) ministry for providing basic amenities.
C S P Rao also announced his decision to tender his resignation in the wake of students' protest.
The students complained about the steep and unilateral increase in fees, absence of toilets for girl students on the campus, poor quality of food being served at the hostels and severe shortage of drinking water.
The students made the director stand for three hours late Wednesday and shot him 40 questions in the presence of media persons.
Rao had no answers but sought a week's time to set things right. However, students were unrelenting on their demand that he quit immediately.
Bowing to the pressure, he wrote a resignation letter addressed to NIT Chairman Deekshitulu, handed them over to students and walked out of the campus.
It was not immediately clear if their resignations under pressure would be valid and accepted by higher authorities.
Various students' groups had been protesting against both the director and the registrar for last four days. The allegations that the director was biased against Telangana students only added fuel to the fire as pro-Telangana students' outfits also joined the protests.
NIT Warangal, formerly known as Regional Engineering College (REC), ranked among the top 10 technology institutes in the country. It celebrated its golden jubilee in 2008.
It was on Oct 10, 1959 that India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru had laid the foundation stone for REC, Warangal, one of the RECs set up across the country for technical advancement and promotion of national integration.
It was jointly funded and managed by central and state governments till 2003 when the HRD ministry took a decision to take over all the RECs, rename them as National Institute of Technology and convert them to deemed universities.
Director Y V Rao and in-charge registrar C S P Rao announced their resignations late Wednesday after three hours of protests by students.
Tension prevailed on the NIT campus as over 5,000 students laid siege to the director's office demanding his resignation over the alleged misappropriation of Rs.40 crore allotted by the union human resource development (HRD) ministry for providing basic amenities.
C S P Rao also announced his decision to tender his resignation in the wake of students' protest.
The students complained about the steep and unilateral increase in fees, absence of toilets for girl students on the campus, poor quality of food being served at the hostels and severe shortage of drinking water.
The students made the director stand for three hours late Wednesday and shot him 40 questions in the presence of media persons.
Rao had no answers but sought a week's time to set things right. However, students were unrelenting on their demand that he quit immediately.
Bowing to the pressure, he wrote a resignation letter addressed to NIT Chairman Deekshitulu, handed them over to students and walked out of the campus.
It was not immediately clear if their resignations under pressure would be valid and accepted by higher authorities.
Various students' groups had been protesting against both the director and the registrar for last four days. The allegations that the director was biased against Telangana students only added fuel to the fire as pro-Telangana students' outfits also joined the protests.
NIT Warangal, formerly known as Regional Engineering College (REC), ranked among the top 10 technology institutes in the country. It celebrated its golden jubilee in 2008.
It was on Oct 10, 1959 that India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru had laid the foundation stone for REC, Warangal, one of the RECs set up across the country for technical advancement and promotion of national integration.
It was jointly funded and managed by central and state governments till 2003 when the HRD ministry took a decision to take over all the RECs, rename them as National Institute of Technology and convert them to deemed universities.
YV Rao of NIT Warangal Says he didn't resign
The maverick director of the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Warangal, Mr YV Rao who signed his signature on a blank paper yesterday and handed it over to the students saying that it is his resignation letter has changed his tune.
Yesterday night he got admitted to a hospital in Hanmakonda with high BP. Then speaking to the media from his bed he said that he didn't resign from his post and signed on his resignation letter because the students refused to let him go outside the auditorium when the discussion was taking place of his irregularities.
The students have been complaining about the steep and unilateral increase in fees, absence of toilets for girl students on the campus, poor quality of food being served at the hostels and severe shortage of drinking water.
The internal bickering has been brewing for a long time with teaching, non-teaching and students frustrated with themanagement of the Director and Registrar. The present state of affairs is unprecedented in the institution, acclaimed all over the country for being the first Regional Engineering College known for its quality of education. Senior facultymembers feared that reputed companies would back out from campus recruitment because of the alleged financial scandal.
Beleaguered NIT director quits
In a dramatic turn of events, Y. Venkateswara Rao, director, National Institute of Technology (NIT), announced his resignation after he was questioned by NIT students over mismanagement and fund misuse allegations during an open meeting at NIT auditorium on Wednesday evening.
Mr Venkateswara Rao and registrar C.S.P Rao, stood speechless when NIT Students’ Council members bombarded them with questions during the marathon three-hour open meeting at the NIT auditorium, which was packed to capacity to hear Mr Rao’s responses over a host of allegations surrounding NIT.
After Mr Rao failed to respond to any of the questions put forward by the NIT Student Council leaders, all the 4,000-odd students began shouting.
As mediapersons were also present in full numbers, Mr Rao announced his resignation from the podium of NIT auditorium at 6.15 pm, with NIT registrar, who initially tried to defuse the situation, standing as mute spectator.
The allegations against Mr Rao, said NIT Student Council president V. Ankith Reddy, relates to gross neglect in providing basic infrastructure to students.
The students also levelled allegations against Mr Rao claiming that he was involved in a scam involving Rs 60 crores, given by HRD ministry for NIT development activities.
Beginning with the issue of quality of food served at NIT’s Food Court to decreasing student-faculty ratio, the student leaders, cornered Mr Rao on other issues.
The NIT director ducked all questions put before him by the students. He went silent when NIT girl students, who were also present in full strength, asked him to explain as to why there were no ladies toilets for them.
“There is no water to drink nor is there any in the toilets in all the classrooms. We just have to depend on borewell water,” said a student.
While others sought answers why student-faculty ratio had come down to 1:37 in electrical department as against the required 1:12. Interestingly, while the open discussion was going on inside the auditorium, a few NIT students were seen collecting donations from students so that they can plead their case before NIT Board of Governors meeting, which is scheduled on 26 March in New Delhi.
source:http://www.deccanchronicle.com//karimnagar/beleaguered-nit-director-quits-754
Warangal NIT Director Scam
YV Rao, the disgraced director of the prestigious National Institute of Technology (NIT) Warangal who has allegedly siphoned off around 60 crores meant for NIT has offered to resign from his post.
Today he had to face lot of unanswerable questions from the NIT students and at last he let his signature of a blank paper and gave it to the students and asked them to treat it as his resignation letter.
Yesterday about 2,000 students residing in various hostels on the campus came out openly alleging large scale misappropriation of public funds by director Y.V. Rao. The students alleged there was no water supply on the campus and the food was of very poor quality which forced nearly 600 students go out everyday.
The students allege that a building of 1000 beds was given for construction to Nagarjuna constructions for 70 crores while the building could have been easily built with just 15-20 crores. “The director is supreme in all matters. He takes unilateral decisions and snubs whoever questions him,” the students allege.
The students also alleged that since the past few months the illegal activities of the director have grown exponentially and he has amassed huge funds.
It is nice to see that the students are not prepared to let corruption take place in the campus said the local leaders present there.
Monday, March 22, 2010
MUNERA POINTS TALLY
MUNERA POINTS TALLY SO FAR
AS ON 21ST MARCH
| BRANCH\POINTS | GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | TOTAL |
| CIVIL | 20 | 3 | 7 | 30 |
| EEE | 30 | 9 | 11 | 50 |
| MECH | 10 | 12 | 3 | 25 |
| ECE | 70 | 30 | 2.5 | 102.5 |
| META | - | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| CHEM | 40 | 46 | 7 | 89 |
| CSE | 45 | 33 | 7.5 | 86.5 |
| BIOTECH | 30 | 15 | 8 | 53 |
| MPC,MBA,MCA | - | - | 2 | 2 |
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