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The doctoral defence of a probe student successful Kerala University’s Sanskrit Department waded into contention aft the Head of the Department wrote to the Vice Chancellor against awarding doctorate.
In her ceremonial connection to Vice Chancellor in-charge Mohanan Kunnummal, C.N. Vijayakumari, Dean of Faculty of Oriental Studies and Head of the Sanskrit Department, has raised superior procedural concerns regarding the behaviour of the PhD unfastened defence held connected October 15.
The practice states that the thesis ‘Sadgurusaraswam – A study’ was allowed to proceed successful a mode that allegedly bypassed mandatory scrutiny astatine the module level. During the unfastened defence, the campaigner purportedly failed to reply factual questions related to his thesis neither successful Sanskrit, English nor Malayalam. Despite specified shortcomings, the scholar’s dissertation was reportedly accepted and recommended for the PhD degree.
The thesis was written successful English and the ailment claims that the pupil was incapable to respond adjacent to basal questions posed by module members during the unfastened defence. She expressed interest that awarding a doctorate for a “substandard dissertation” would tarnish the estimation of the university, which precocious secured a apical presumption successful the caller NIRF rankings.
