Teachers demand action against Tiruvalluvar University officials

Tiruvalluvar University Employees Union honorary president I Elangovan, who participated in the protest told DTNext that associations would make repeated efforts to seek justice. 

The protesters urged the university to take back the staffs, who were refusing to obey the High Court orders regarding re-employment of 63 ousted staff. They also stressed on the point of wasting expenses by outsourcing for correction work in all the exams. Elangovan further added that though he had personally met Governor Banwarilal Purohit and handed over two petitions regarding the university to act against them.

He was shocked to see the Governor was the chancellor of the university. He also found out that Collector SA Raman was acting as interpreter to the Governor. He gave him the incorrect information resulting in the Collector officially informing him that the petitions had been forwarded to the Vellore RJDCE (Regional Director of Collegiate Education) for further action.

“How can the RJDCE who is of a college principal’s cadre either inquire or act against the VC or exam controller, who are top university officials,” questioned Elangovan. “The whole exercise of submitting petitions to the Governor was a mockery as the Collector gave wrong interpretations to the petitions,” he added. 

With both university VC and registrar being away, university exams controller K Senthilkumar refused to comment. “The fact that the university was able to publish the last semester’s results despite TUEU charges of 1 lakh answer scripts going missing proved that the university was in the right,” he added.