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The Department of Higher Education connected Tuesday cancelled the three-day league connected Hindutva ideologue Deendayal Upadhyaya scheduled to commencement connected the Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) premises successful Mysuru from Wednesday aft rejecting the reply fixed by Vice-Chancellor Sharanappa V. Halase.
Hourse aft Prof. Halase claimed that the ‘Ekatma Manav Darshan - Bharat’s Worldview’ was a “private programme” and the KSOU had simply rented its convocation hallway to the organisers for the event, N. Kumar, Deputy Secretary to the Government (Universities) successful a missive to the Vice-Chancellor, noted that the invitation paper for the programme mentioned the assemblage arsenic the “Hosting University,” and carried the university’s logo, portion Prof. Halase himself was presiding implicit the programme.
“Therefore, determination are nary valid grounds to judge the mentation furnished successful your written statement,” noted the letter.
The ‘Ekatma Manav Darshan - Bharat’s Worldview’, commemorating 60 years of Pt. Deendayal Upadhyaya’s lectures, organised by Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation and Prajna Pravah connected the KSOU campus, had sparked a enactment with the State authorities opposing the lawsuit citing protocol usurpation and issuing a amusement origin announcement to Prof. Halase.
Rent paid later
The missive by the Higher Education Department referred to documents, seemingly connected the outgo of rent for the venue by the organisers to KSOU, and said it is evident that the rental magnitude for the programme was collected from the acrophobic organisation aft the contented was raised during Zero Hour successful the Legislative Council. “Although the programme is stated to beryllium backstage and extracurricular the purview of the university, nary justification has been provided for the usage of the university’s logo”.
Subject matter
As the nonsubjective and taxable substance of the league are besides recovered to beryllium inconsistent with the aims and objectives of the university, granting support for a backstage programme successful usurpation of authorities guidelines, rules, and protocol cannot beryllium accepted, the authorities said earlier cancelling the programme with contiguous effect.
Earlier, erstwhile asked by The Hindu whether helium was attending the programme, Prof. Halase said the organisers had invited him to the league ‘out of courtesy’. As Governor Thaawar Chand Gehlot, who is besides the Chancellor of the University, had been invited for the programme, the Vice-Chancellor said protocol demands that helium person the Governor.
Responding to the show-cause notice, Prof. Halase had sought to clarify that the league was not an authoritative programme of the KSOU. “The relation of the assemblage is constricted solely to providing the venue connected rental basis,” helium said.
KSOU possesses 1 of the astir modern and spacious auditoriums successful the portion with a ample seating capacity, and the university, which is simply a self-financing institution, permits the usage of this installation connected a rental ground for conferences, seminars, symposiums, and different world activities for “revenue procreation and optimal utilisation of resources”, helium said.
Logo row
Responding to the usage of the university’s emblem connected the connection sent by the organisers to the Department of Collegiate Education, inviting information from the faculty, Prof. Halase said the logo connected the invitation was utilized lone to facilitate the information of KSOU’s PhD scholars, students, and faculty. “It is customary for outer organisers utilizing the university’s facilities to widen invitations to our world community, and occasionally invitation the Vice-Chancellor arsenic main guest,” helium added.
