Times
of India: Nagpur: Saturday, 21 March 2015.
The Nagpur
bench of Bombay High Court has directed Nagpur University (NU) to file a reply
regarding a petition on missing documents of a Kamptee college.
Sunil Mishra,
the petitioner who pleaded himself, said, "I have put forth documents
before the court which make it clear that important permission documents of the
Samaj Karya Mahavidyalaya (SKM) in Kamptee are missing. The NU and social
welfare department have failed to produce the documents even though I have been
persistently trying to access them."
Mishra added
that the HC asked for a reply from NU by March 27, the date when the matter
will be taken up next.
The
petitioner alleges that he has information about colleges which function under
NU and have no records as to how they have come into existence. "In short,
the possibility of bogus colleges functioning under the NU has come to
light" the petition states. Mishra says SKM has been in existence since
1994 and yet its original documents could not be accessed from NU even through
a Right To Information (RTI) query. Mishra said the NU had sought time as the
file pertaining to the college is yet to be found.
The reason
this case is being discussed a lot in NU circles is because SKM is backed by a
NU's finance and accounts officer Puran Meshram. "Mishra should have made
our education society a respondent in this PIL and sought our reply, instead he
is asking NU and the state government. Searching for 20 year old original
documents in the vast NU records is not an easy task. The record room has
shifted also in that period and many other changes came. The documents are not
missing, only misplaced and will definitely be found. I can guarantee you that
even documents related to the older colleges won't be found easily because so
much time has elapsed," said Meshram.
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