Kottayam: The Mahatma Gandhi University Syndicate will have to answer for the appointment and promotion of a section assistant who was arrested by the Vigilance and the Anti-Corruption Bureau on Saturday while receiving a bribe of Rs 15,000 for granting provisional MBA certificate to a girl student.
The Finance Inspection Wing had said in its report two years ago that the University Syndicate had conspired to grant out-of-turn promotion to 31 employees, including the arrested employee CJ Elsy, as university clerical assistants. But the university hushed up the inspection report during the last two years.
The inspection wing also recommended the cancellation of the illegal promotion of these 31 employees. But the MG University and the Higher Education Department did not take any corrective steps and just sat on the report. But the old inspection report has now turned out to be a pointer towards the alleged corruption and nepotism involved in the decision of the Syndicate to grant promotion to Elsy and others.
The decision to grant promotion was taken at the Syndicate meeting held on May 5, 2018. As per the rules, only four per cent of the vacancies for clerical assistants existing in the entry cadre can be filled by promoting those eligible from the low-paid category. So out of 238 entry cadres posts, 10 posts could have been reserved as promotion posts for those from the low paid category.
But the university filled 28 posts by promoting those from the low-paid category, after basing the calculation on the four per cent of the total 714 vacancies of clerical assistants.
The Syndicate meeting held on Monday claimed that there were no irregularities in the appointment and promotion of Elsy and everything was in order. But the Syndicate meeting kept mum on the crucial report of the Finance Inspection Wing.
