V-C expands fact-finding committee

PARTIALLY GIVING in to the demands of the students, Allahabad University (AU) Vice-Chancellor Prof Rajen Harshe on Tuesday expanded the ?Empowered Committee? set up to bring transparency in the spending of money received by the various varsity departments as grants from different funding agencies.

PARTIALLY GIVING in to the demands of the students, Allahabad University (AU) Vice-Chancellor Prof Rajen Harshe on Tuesday expanded the ‘Empowered Committee’ set up to bring transparency in the spending of money received by the various varsity departments as grants from different funding agencies.

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It may be recalled that earlier, Dean (Science) Prof Hari Prakash, Head of AU Mathematics Department Prof Vindyachal Rai and Prof PK Khare of AU Botany Department were appointed by the V-C to the Empowered Committee.

Objecting to the selection of teachers appointed to the committee, the student leaders had launched an agitation and demanded that the committee be headed by Dean (Arts) Prof KG Srivasatava and have non-science faculty teachers as its members for a fair and impartial inquiry. They had also demanded that Prof PK Khare be excluded from the committee as he was already a member of the purchase committee.

The V-C on Tuesday appointed Head of AU Economics Department Prof PN Mehrotra and Head of AU Botany Department Prof DR Mishra as new members of the committee.

Prof PK Khare, who was out of the city at the time of the announcement of formation of the ‘Empowered Committee’, met the V-C on his return and expressed his reluctance to be part of the fact-finding team due to objections raised from some quarters.The V-C then appointed Prof BP Singh of the Law Faculty as the new member of the ‘Empowered Committee’.

The committee is to submit its report within the next two weeks to the V-C who is then expected to place it before the AU Executive Council.

Workshop
DEPARTMENT OF Economics in Allahabad University is going to organise a four-day workshop on ‘International Marketing and Export Import Documentation’ in the department from March 30.

“The department has been organising an annual workshop every year on ‘International Marketing and Export Import Documentation’ for the benefit of its student as well as importers and exporter of Allahabad and nearby districts. The programme is conducted by the experts of Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi which is a deemed University of the Central government,” informed Prof Amrendra Singh, co-ordinator of AU Economic Department’s one-year diploma programme in Foreign Trade Practices and Procedures.

He said that these workshops generated a lot of enthusiasm, awareness and interest among different stakeholders. “The workshop includes extensive lectures-cum-demonstrations and provides training for completing the export documents. In the workshop, basic training kit is also provided to the participants,” he added.Prof Singh said that this year the workshop was scheduled from March 30 to April 2 in the Department of Economics. “All persons who look forward to deriving benefit from this important skill development programme may contact the HoDEconomics.