DUTA accuses SOL of financial irregularities
30 Oct 2014 3:51 AM IST
The Delhi University Teacher’s Association (DUTA) on Tuesday alleged violation of rules in the conduct of personal contact programmes by the varsity’s School of Open Learning.
‘There have been violation of administrative and financial regulations in the functioning of SOL. As per the rules, each student is supposed to attend at least 30 PCPs (personal contact programmes) per year, but the school has reduced them to 10 without taking any consent from the staff council,’ DUTA President Nandita Narain alleged.
The teachers body also alleged financial irregularities in SOL’s functioning. ‘The conduct of PCP at various centres used to cost anything between Rs 1 and 3 lakh per centre depending on the student enrolment excluding the payment to the resource persons. The new proposal offers more than Rs 8 lakh for the same which includes Rs 25,000 per month to the principals, Rs 16,000 to the observers. However, the university’s rule does not allow this,’ Narain said in a statement.
Responding to the allegations SOL Director CS Dubey said, ‘The allegations are false and the number of classes have not been reduced. In fact where earlier we were able to provide PCPs to only 20 per cent students due to infrastructural issues, now we are providing PCPs to over 70 per cent students.’
‘There have been violation of administrative and financial regulations in the functioning of SOL. As per the rules, each student is supposed to attend at least 30 PCPs (personal contact programmes) per year, but the school has reduced them to 10 without taking any consent from the staff council,’ DUTA President Nandita Narain alleged.
The teachers body also alleged financial irregularities in SOL’s functioning. ‘The conduct of PCP at various centres used to cost anything between Rs 1 and 3 lakh per centre depending on the student enrolment excluding the payment to the resource persons. The new proposal offers more than Rs 8 lakh for the same which includes Rs 25,000 per month to the principals, Rs 16,000 to the observers. However, the university’s rule does not allow this,’ Narain said in a statement.
Responding to the allegations SOL Director CS Dubey said, ‘The allegations are false and the number of classes have not been reduced. In fact where earlier we were able to provide PCPs to only 20 per cent students due to infrastructural issues, now we are providing PCPs to over 70 per cent students.’
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