AMU Centres: FRAUD PLAYED ON AMU & MUSLIMS

AMU:FRAUD PLAYED ON AMU & MUSLIMS

Important: On eve of the meeting of hand-picked eminent persons(Mr. Naseem Ahmad ex-VC, Mohd. Adeeb, M.P. names deleted, Mahmoodur-rehman and Prof. Nasim Farooqui ex-VC addresses tempered with and so on) at India international Center, on 30.5.2010 organized by Prof. Abdul Azis to feed them with twisted facts and half truths about the establishment of campuses/ Centers and non-existent reforms on the Campus.

Aligarh Muslim University Act enshrines ‘a teaching Residential Muslim University at Aligarh’ as its preamble.

In addition to Faculties and Departments of Studies and Centres, the Act envisages the establishment of Special Centres and Special Labs, Schools etc. but within the prescribed limit of 25 km from the University Mosque under Section 5(9A) and 12(1) of the University Act, as a guarantee to its cherished Residential character.

All policy decisions are taken by the Authorities of the University, the Court, Executive Council, Academic Council, Finance Committee and the Faculties in the spheres defined jointly or otherwise; V.C. is sub-ordinate to the Authorities and implements the decisions taken by them.

The Academic set-up is based on Faculties to which Departments of Studies/Centres are assigned and Centre is treated equivalent to a Department and Departments cannot be duplicated in the University. Creation of ‘Special Centres’ (Section 5(9A) and 12(2) shall be supplement to the existing Departments/ Centres and be not independent and self sufficient to impart training of their own, for obvious reasons. The ‘Special Centres’ shall be within 25 km of the University Mosque as provided under Section 5(9A). As such, no ‘Special Centres’ advocated by Prof. Azis can be established, any where in West Bengal, Bihar, Kerala etc.

The incessant pronouncements and claims, rather a vicious propaganda through the press (including press conferences) conventions and conferences including the present one costing the University lakhs of rupees without authorization, of the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. P.K. Abdul Azis about establishment of AMU Campuses/Centres/ Special Centres for the educational upliftment of the Muslims of India on the strength of the oft-repeated Section 5(2)(c) of the Act, is a legal impossibility (as pointed out above) administrative impracticability (impossible to exercise control from Aligarh thousands of miles away on day to day basis) and a fraud on Muslims (as no such decision to extend concession to Muslims was taken by the competent authorities, nor is the University so empowered as its Minority Status has been under suspension by the orders of the High Court (including powers under Section 5(2)(c). VC persistant claims of extending concession to Muslims under Section 5(2)(c), may attract Contempt of the Court proceedings. However, at the same time Prof. Azis himself categorically stated that there shall no quota and admissions shall be made on the basis of open All India Tests. Furthermore, the Authorities have not taken a formal decision about the establishment of AMU Campuses/Centers/ Special Centres and necessary amendments to the Statutes and/or Ordinances were not brought about, according to the procedures prescribed in the University Act.

There is no truth in the disclosure made by the Vice-Chancellor (T.I.O. dated 15.5.2010) that the Visitor has accorded sanction to establish two new ‘Special Centres’ at Murshidabad and Mallapuram. V.C. in his letter (19.3.2010) referred to in the Visitor’s communication (27.4.2010) does not even contain a request for the sanction. While the Visitor has only “agreed to approve in principle the establishment of . . .” and it fell short of passing the order/sanction. Advertently or inadvertently the Visitor’s communication mentioned ‘Centres’ and not ‘Special Centre’ which is not in the scope of provision, Section 12(2) of the Act, invoked.

AMU is neither empowered to establish its Campus/Centres like all other Universities in the Country, nor have the competent Authorities taken formal decisions and amended the relevant provisions to make away. The ‘Special Centres’ have very limited scope and purpose which cannot substitute Departments and take up teaching work independently.

Despite this, the responsible Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India under pressure from the powerful Finance Minister, (The Telegraph, Calcutta, 27. 3. 2010) released the budget grant of 25 crores for Murshidabad (Mr. Mukerjee’s constituency) and only 10 crores out 25 to Mallapuram.

Therefore, all the pronouncements and claims by Prof. Abdul Azis are his personal without the required force of law and authority.

It is an open secret as to what are the compelling reasons behind Prof. Azis’s indulgence in all the mis-adventures and rhetoric’s with such a reckless way and so brazenly;

i) The Inquiry reports, Cochin University establishing financial irregularities and corruption charges against Prof. Azis, when he was V.C. of CUSAT, Kochi;

ii) CAG, U.P., annual report, 2009 disclosing serious unprecedented financial irregularities, running in crores of rupees;

iii) Visitor’s Inquiry is on, against him on all sorts of allegations made by the members of the Executive Council and much more not yet been listed.

Serious note must be taken of the freedom Prof. Azis enjoyed in this very important matter despite the restrain imposed short of sending him on leave by MHRD to confine only to routine matters during the pending of the Visitor’s Inquiry.

Anyway, Prof. Azis, hoping against hope that he can wriggle out of the mess of his own creation by serving the Masters in Delhi , particularly, Mr. Pranab Mukerjee and be-fooling un-aware Muslim Community. Is not AMU paying too much a price for no fault of its own.

Prof. Azis has messed up everything and he has nothing to offer, except his resignation and quit gracefully, the early the better.

Senior Teachers and Old Boys

29.5.10

Courtesy:
voiceofaligs.yahoogroups.com

{The above message was posted on the above yahoo group by a very senior and respected retired faculty Prof. Ziauddin Ahmad (Retd), Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India.}