Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 2: Alleging irregularities in charging of quality assurance fund by the Directorate of Quality Assurance in Jammu University, Jammu Students Morcha (JSM) has demanded audit of the department for the last six years.
Addressing media persons, Vikram Kumar, State president JSM said that Directorate of Quality Assurance has been charging Quality Assurance Fund from each student (Rs 135 per student), who took admission in Under Graduate, Post Graduate, Directorate of Distance Education, B Ed, M Ed and even in any other private college of State. Inspite of charging huge fund every year from students, it was still unknown, where the fund has been used, he added.
“According to official website of Directorate Quality Assurance, the collected QA fund would be used to undertake, intervention strategies for encouraging self-evaluation, accountability, continual improvement in all the system procedure beside many other functions, but on ground level, the net result was nil,” Vikram Kumar alleged.
Further, he added, the department is supposed to conduct training and development programmes for faculty, officers, non teaching staff of University and Principals and teachers of the affiliated colleges of the University but all turned into a farce.
“Even the department has also written that the fund is supposed to be used for placements, fellowships, career education fairs beside numerous other functions, but we want to ask the University authorities that how many placement drives have been conducted in languages departments including Dogri, Punjabi, Urdu, English and other Social Studies department”, he questioned.
Demanding special audit of the funds and the department, JSM president appealed Chancellor of Jammu University to intervene into the matter so that truth could be ascertained.
Among those who were present in the press-conference, included, Jyoti Gupta, Rohit Gupta, Vikrant Singh, Raman Gupta and Amit Gupta.
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