Sneha Manju Basu becomes JU's full-time Registrar

Kolkata: After a gap of more than one year, Jadavpur University will be getting a full-time Registrar in the form of Sneha Manju Basu. The selection committee had selected Basu as the Registrar on Friday which was ratified by the Executive Committee (EC), the highest decision-making body of the varsity, on Saturday.

Basu is a professor of Geography at Lady Brabourne College. The EC meeting also framed the terms and reference of the enquiry committee that was constituted on August 29 to probe whether there were any procedural or other lapses in the evaluation of answer scripts of all the six Humanities subjects in which the varsity had conducted admission tests.

The committee has been also given the task to recommend a uniform guideline for admission from the next academic year. The two-member committee led by retired Justice Pranab Chattopadhyay has Ashutosh Ghosh, former Vice-Chancellor of Calcutta University as member. It may be mentioned that there were allegations of improper evaluation of answer scripts of History and the varsity had to conduct re-evaluation with external academicians.

It was found that there was a significant variation of marks secured by the candidates in the first and second evaluation. The first evaluation was conducted by professors of the History department while the second was done by external experts. Jadavpur University decided to conduct probe of all the Humanities subjects to ensure transparency.