IMPHAL, October 13: The Teachers`™ Welfare Association of S Kula Women`™s College Nambol has submitted two memorandums to the Director University Higher and Technical Education alleging acute corruption practices in the college.
Speaking at a press meet at the Manipur Press Club today, the members of the association called for dissolution of the present governing body of the College and conduct of a special spot enquiry by the concerned authorities over corruption charges.
They also expressed dissent over the recent order of the government dated October 8 to open a B Ed course in their college and feel that in the absence of any infrastructural preparedness, it will merely put the present teachers available in the college to more disadvantages as the college already has 26 departments.
The association in their submission went further to say the photographs submitted to the authorities in pursuance of this B Ed course opening are fake and fabricated and that the college has insufficient class rooms at present.
The association further went on to mark Rs 2 lakhs in their account as a bribe and hinted towards a powerful nexus of people sharing the loot of the college fund.
The present Governing Body comprises of 10 member including Prof MC Arun and Prof L Leiren Singh besides local educationist and other representatives from the area, informed a teaching staff of the college.
The erstwhile private college founded in 1981 was converted to a Government Aided College in December 2011, he said.
The teachers also said their salary reduced by at least Rs 1000 per head per month since this upgrade and feel very deprived.
The main corruption allegations of the members present at the press meet were aimed towards N Ibomcha, Associate Prof, Chemistry, Nambol L Sanoi College, who they said is part of all the bodies, projects and programmes or the college.
He was inducted as a local educationist in the Governing Body of S Kula Women College, they claimed.
`He demanded that more than Rs.83,14,589/- were spent from his personal account during the construction of Working Women Hostel and forcefully reimbursed Rs.20,00,000/- from the college fund for himself and insisted on further recovery of more funds` remarked Dr M Ratankumar Singh, secretary of the association.
K Somorjit, who is the lone teacher representative in the present GB added, `The investigating team for the anomalies in the Star Project found interesting revelations.`
According to the documents provided by the association to media persons, S Kula Women College was awarded with Potential for Excellence (CPE)/CE Scheme since April 2014 for a period of five years.
The sanction amount from the UGC inclusive of capital assets and grand-in-aid is Rs.100,00,000/-. The college also received UGC`™s Community College Scheme in May 2014 which is an amount of Rs. 129,70,000/- for two years inclusive of scholarships for students amounting to Rs.30,00,000/-.
The Star College project which is for a duration of three years was also sanctioned by the DBT besides a sanction for construction of the Working Women`™s Hostel under the Ministry of Women and Child Development GoI, the documents said.
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