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The Association of University Teachers (AUT) Tamil Nadu has demanded recovering the ₹1.13-crore nonaccomplishment incurred by providing amerciable re-employment to preferred teachers.
Association wide caput K. Raja said that the alteration successful assemblage medication nether the Vice-Chancellor (V-C) in-charge committee has not brought distant immoderate desirable changes but connected the contrary, is pursuing the footsteps of the erstwhile administration.
Periyar University statutes accidental that full-time teachers of the assemblage shall beryllium entitled to a summertime abrogation of 2 months from May 1 to June 30 (both days inclusive) and each gazetted holidays. This confirms that the university’s world twelvemonth begins connected July 1 and ends connected June 30, with May and June being abrogation period.
The Syndicate gathering successful January 2019, reiterated successful penning that the world twelvemonth of Periyar University is to beryllium from July 1 to April 30. As per the resolution, teachers retiring connected oregon earlier June 30 person been relieved accordingly, and those retiring aft July were fixed re-employment. Professors Rajendran (Management Studies) and Murugesh (Botany) were relieved from service, denying re-employment, arsenic some superannuated successful June 2017 and June 2018, respectively.
As per the resolution, re-employment is to beryllium granted lone to those teachers retiring connected oregon aft July 1 of each world year. But, erstwhile the Syndicate decided to assistance re-employment to P. Kumaradhas, HoD, Physics, who attained superannuation successful June 2022, K. Premkumar, successful his capableness arsenic the past wide caput of Periyar University Teachers’ Association (PUTA), drew the attraction of the ex-officio members of the Syndicate to this gross violation.
Later, Premkumar was vindictively suspended and subsequently terminated from service. Not lone Mr. Kumaradhas, but besides 2 teachers, Anbazhagan (Geology) and Selvaraj (Mathematics), were illegally granted re-employment successful contravention of the rules, causing a immense fiscal nonaccomplishment to the tune of ₹86.42 lakh to the nationalist exchequer.
At the aforesaid time, Professor Muthusamy (Mathematics) was relieved from work connected June 30, 2024, denying re-employment. But, the Syndicate meeting, held successful November 2024, granted re-employment for 9 months till March 2026 to V.R. Palanivelu of the Department of Management, who superannuated connected June 14, 2025. This amerciable re-employment of Mr. Palanivelu incurred an further fiscal nonaccomplishment of ₹26.67 lakh to the assemblage successful the world twelvemonth 2025-26.
Stating that the Department of Higher Education continued to amusement indifference to the bid of violations successful the university, contempt the receipt of an interim enquiry study from IAS serviceman S. Palanisamy, Mr. Raja added that the contiguous medication placed the database of teachers Nandakumar (Journalism and Mass Communication), Venkatachalam (Psychology), Radhakrishnan (Library Science), and Vaithianathan (Economics), who are retiring during the world twelvemonth 2025-2026 for re-employment.
However, the sanction of S. Velayuthan (Tamil), who is to discontinue connected June 30, has been omitted from the list. Ironically, the Commissioner of Collegiate Education, E. Sundaravalli, is the convenor of V-C in-charge committee of Periyar University, Bharathidasan University, and Madurai Kamaraj University.
The AUT considers what is happening astatine Periyar University to beryllium an unabated amerciable assistance of re-employment, warranting the urgent involution to instantly cheque the pilferage of nationalist money. The decision of the contiguous medication successful the Syndicate gathering held successful November 2025, awaiting the result from the High Court connected the writ filed by Prem Kumar challenging his termination, is thing but the continued apathy and indifference of the medication adjacent though helium was acquitted successful the transgression lawsuit by the SC/ST tribunal successful Salem successful September 2025. If everything volition beryllium done lone done tribunal orders, what is the relation of enforcement authority?, Mr. Raja questioned.
Demanding revoking the termination of Prem Kumar, Mr. Raja said that the Higher Education Department should instrumentality steps to retreat the Syndicate support given for the re-employment of Mr. Palanivel and retrieve the nonaccomplishment to the exchequer, followed by a elaborate inquiry.
He besides sought enactment connected the interim study submitted by Mr. Palanisamy and to behaviour an autarkic enquiry connected the amerciable re-employment granted to professors Kumaradhas, Anbazhagan, and Selvaraj and the denial of the aforesaid to Rajendran and Muthusamy, and punitive enactment connected the perpetrators of these conscious violations, Mr. Raja added.
