Sand Castles called Special Centres of AMU

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Sand Castles called Special Centres of AMU
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Much media hype is being created about the special centres of AMU but the ‘honourable’ Vice Chancellor is not able to persuade his own confidants among the senior Faculty members within AMU campus.

The Department of Business Administration had its meeting of Board of Studies (BoS) 13 May 2010 on the eleventh hour it suddenly occurred to the VC that he should care about getting this proposal approved through the appropriate bodies of the AMU, and thus an item was belatedly thrust upon the agenda of the BOS. Thanks to the incisive wisdom of the sharp members of the BoS, who passed the following resolution:

“[The BoS] appreciated the efforts of the Vice Chancellor in opening the special centres at Mallapuram and Murshidabad. However, it opined that the item is beyond the purview of the BoS of the Department of Business Administration to address the issue”.

All of us Aligs must congratulate Prof. Javed Akhtar, Prof. Ashhar (Civil Engineering, Co-opted member), Prof. Khalid Azam ( Chairman), besides other faculty members who displayed that they are firm sticklers of the statutes and ordinances of the AMU. A relevant part of the AMU Act 1981 restricts the expansion of AMU within 25 Kms. from the AMU’s Jama Masjid.

Even in the Faculty Board they displayed their firm commitment to the rules by forwarding the minutes of the BoS to the Executive Council (S-21(d) of the AMU’s Academic Ordinances, p.49).

Ironically, the Department of Law revealed its naiveté towards the Statutes and Ordinances for the same agenda item.

Credible information are available that the honourable VC tried to coerce Prof. Javed Akhtar to undo the resolution of BoS of 13.5.2010 either by hook or crook. Poor Hafiz Akhtar is caught between the devil and the deep sea. Let us all empathise with him and extend all possible support to him in upholding the rules of law on the campus. Needless to say he alone can not fight a battle with the VC.

Most worrying is the fact that the letter of appreciation from the Honourable President of India and Visitor of AMU, profusely cited by the VC can’t ever overrule the AMU Act 1981. (This is a letter of appreciation and not of permission from the Honourable President of India). More informed people have a different understanding of “special centres”. They interpret that only ‘special centres’ like Studies in Oceanography or other such specialised research centres can be opened elsewhere. This is not meant for running usual courses of teaching (Section 12 of the AMU Act 1981).

In India, there is already a concern about huge scarcity of qualified teachers, more specifically in technical-professional courses of higher education. One of the ways of resolving this issue was to enhance the age of superannuation (from 62 to 65 years extendable up to 05 more years). Clearly, the existing unfilled posts must not be diverted; rather they should immediately be filled. It is indeed a dangerous politics in AMU that first the posts have been kept vacant by holding General selection Committee (GSC) selectively and reluctantly, and then these vacant posts are sought to be pushed towards the elusive special centres, far away from Aligarh.

Nasty politics of intimidation is already on rise. Some whistle blowers among the teachers of integrity and competence are sought to be victimised in various many ways including withholding the recommendations of the selection committees.

Moot question is: why did not the V.C. try to have a near consensus of the insiders on the special centres? Why is he not able to persuade his own loyal teachers for geographical expansion of AMU? Is it because of Prof. Azis’ tainted credentials?


One is also not able to rule out the fact that Kishanganj, Murshidabad, (and possibly Mallapuram as well), have been the last refuge of the scoundrels. For how long the Muslim majority constituencies will be treated as electoral greener pastures by the self seeking politicians, that too in breach of that too in breach of the AMU Act?

Jaago Qasmi Jaago:

Sadly, Maulana Asrarul Haque Qasmi, the parliamentarian from Kishanganj (Bihar), does not worry about the corruption charges against Prof. Azis since his Cochin days. Mr. Qasmi does not worry about his own electorates who have not been offered Patna as centre of AMU’s entrance test. Mr. M.A.A. Fatmi and Dr. Shakil Ahmed have already been punished by their electorates for developing cold feet on the issue of Patna as one of the centres of entrance tests. Maulana Qasmi should be wise enough to read the writings on the walls.

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