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GUWAHATI
Assam Congress president and MP Gaurav Gogoi has sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s involution to extremity a prolonged unrest successful Tezpur University, a Central instauration unopen down indefinitely by its students, forcing the medication to cancel each extremity word examinations.
The students person been agitating since September 22 against the university’s Vice Chancellor, Shambhu Nath Singh, for alleged fiscal irregularities, mismanagement and deficiency of accountability. They unopen down each services connected the campus, including world activities, from November 29.
The associations of the university’s teachers and non teaching employees person extended their enactment to the pupil led agitation nether the Tezpur University United Forum.
In a missive to the Prime Minister made nationalist connected Tuesday (December 2, 2025), Mr. Gogoi underscored the “widespread dissatisfaction” among the students and module members of the university. He said the concern connected the field escalated aft Prof. Singh’s alleged insensitive remarks connected Assamese taste icon Zubeen Garg and the university’s nonaccomplishment to observe the State mourning period.
The Sonitpur territory medication subsequently conducted a magisterial enquiry into the field unrest.
“The Tezpur University Teachers’ Association has reported respective pressing issues, including administrative negligence, with the Vice Chancellor often [remaining] absent from field without ceremonial delegation of authority, starring to delays and administrative paralysis,” Mr. Gogoi wrote.
“Academic decline”
He stated that the university’s world show declined sharply, reflected successful a important driblet successful National Institutional Ranking Framework rankings owed to shortages of teachers, stalled recruitments and inadequate probe support.
“There are besides allegations of fiscal and procurement irregularities, specified arsenic unauthorised usage of assemblage property, excessive question expenditure, procurement without tendering and engagement of agencies lacking transparency. Appointments and extensions person reportedly been made successful usurpation of the Tezpur University Act and Statutes, including the tenure of the Finance Officer and the advertisement hoc instauration of contractual positions,” Mr. Gogoi urged the Prime Minister.
He highlighted that concerns had besides been raised astir the prime of recently constructed infrastructure, with hostels and world buildings already showing structural defects, suggesting lapses successful supervision and prime control.
“Tezpur University has agelong been a premier centre of learning successful the Northeast, and its existent diminution underscores the request for contiguous involution to reconstruct world standards and organization integrity. I question your urgent attraction to the issues outlined supra and respectfully impulse that indispensable measures beryllium undertaken to code the challenges confronting the university,” Mr. Gogoi further wrote.
