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Kerala varsity not to contest Lokayukta ruling on jobs
Monday January 09, 2012 07:36:00 PM,
IANS
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Thursday asked the Kerala University to cancel all the
appointments made to the assistant grade posts in 2008 as the
process then was not transparent.
Issuing the directive, Upa Lokayukta Justice G. Sashidharan said
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Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala University's syndicate met here Monday and decided not to
appeal against the Lokayukta's direction to cancel all
appointments to assistant grade posts made in 2008.
Soon after the meeting of the chief executive body of the
university, syndicate member R.S. Sasikumar told reporters that
the decision was taken through voting.
"Ten members voted to uphold the Lokayukta findings, while eight
voted against it," said Sasikumar.
On Dec 29 the Upa Lokayukta, Justice G. Sasidharan, cancelled the
entire list of selected candidates for lack of transparency, and
said action should be taken against the then vice chancellor M.K.
Ramachandran Nair, the then pro-vice chancellor V. Jayaprakash and
four syndicate members for the manner in which the selection
process was conducted.
During the Left government led by V.S. Achuthanandan of the
Communist Party of India-Marxist (2006-11), the Congress raised
this issue in the assembly as a corruption case.
The case was unearthed by Sujith S. Kurup, the then Kerala
University Senate member and Congress student leader, who filed a
case with the Upa Lokayukta that large-scale corruption took place
in the university appointments.
Though the selection test was conducted during the Congress-led
government's tenure in 2006, the list of successful candidates was
prepared during the Achuthanandan government's tenure.
At that time, 160 candidates were appointed and the Congress
opposition alleged that 60 of them were close to the Left
political leaders.
In 2008, when the Lokayukta first asked for cancellation of the
list, the aggrieved teachers approached the Kerala High Court and
demanded a stay on the directive, but the court constituted a
committee to look into the Congress allegations.
The committee concluded that the appointments were not made in a
transparent manner. The court then asked the Lokayukta to go into
the case once again.
Former vice chancellor Nair told reporters Monday that the
decision of the syndicate was against the law of the land as a
case was pending on this in the high court.
A few of those who have got the job on the basis of this test have
also approached the high court, asking it to intervene. The case
would come up Tuesday.
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