Northeast Now: Guwahati: Sunday, June 10, 2018.
Expressing
displeasure over issuing reply to an RTI application regarding College of
Veterinary Science playground at Khanapara, Assam Agriculture University vice
chancellor Dr KM Bujarbaruah on Saturday said that the Associate Director of
Students’ Welfare (ADSW) of the university has no authority to reply to RTI
applications.
“ADSW Ranjeet
Neog is not authorised to reply to RTI applications. The PIO of the university
is the sole authorised official who can provide RTI reply regarding any issues
relating to the university,” Bujarbaruah told Northeast Now over phone from New
Delhi.
Ranjeet Neog,
ADSW of the AAU, in a reply to an RTI application held the BJP and Kamrup
(Metro) district administration responsible for destruction of the playground
belonging to College of Veterinary Science.
Regarding the
alleged destruction of the playground, Bujarbaruah said that he would discuss
the issue with the Dean of the university’s Guwahati campus.
The Vice
Chancellor further said that ADSW Ranjeet Neog’s comment on the news carried by
Northeast Now is personal. “The comment made by the ADSW is not an official
statement of the AAU,” he said.
Reacting to
the report carried by Northeast Now on the College of Veterinary Science
playground, ADSW Ranjeet Neog in a Facebook comment said, “In contrary to the
very caption of the article ‘Assam Agricultural University accuses BJP of destroying
the finest playground in Assam’ in the RTI reply, only facts were submitted and
no one was accused.”
“The AAU
authority was never averse to holding of some prestigious meetings of national
importance at the Multipurpose Sports Complex CVSc. Khanapara. Rather, the AAU
or Veterinary College authority always feels proud of it. It is also not of
good taste to publish selected segments of the RTI reply in the news portal to
mislead people as well as the respected District Administration and the esteem
political party,”he said.
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