Gujarat varsity VC in award row.

The Times of India: Ahmedabad: Wednesday, May 30, 2012.

Gujarat University vice-chancellor (VC) Parimal Trivedi's tryst with controversies continues unabated.

The recently released souvenir of the Gujarat University (GU) dedicates a page detailing laurels bestowed on Trivedi. The souvenir claims that Trivedi was honored with Award for Best Research Work (2005-2006) by the Sardar Patel University (SPU) Vallabh Vidyanagar. However, RTI has revealed that Trivedi never received any such award! Head of physics department at SPU, K N Joshipura, has stated in the RTI reply that there is no information regarding any such award for best research that was given to the GU VC. The information was sought by one S P Patel in Vallabh Vidyanagar.

Joshipura said that in 2005-2006, Trivedi was one of the many persons given PhD degrees. The varsity has also clarified that Trivedi has not received HariVallabhdas Chunilal Shah Research Award nor Bhaikaka Inter University Smarak prize.