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Academicians alleged that the Periyar University medication showed partiality towards teachers and hid captious accusation successful the Syndicate gathering to prevention a teacher whose assignment is nether question.
In the 118th Syndicate gathering of Periyar University held connected November 19, 2025, the University passed a solution to licence J. Venkatachalam, caput of the Psychology Department, to discontinue from work connected April 30, 2026, owed to superannuation.
Periyar University module members said that it looked similar a mean resolution, but the Syndicate infinitesimal did not supply due accusation to the Syndicate and to the Higher Education Department that the Local Fund Audit section objected to the assignment of the prof acrophobic successful 2015-16, arsenic the prof did not fulfil the basal requirements arsenic per the University Grants Commission Regulation 2010.
In 2021, the DVAC registered a transgression lawsuit and it recorded that the recruitment of Mr. Venkatachalam violated the rules and regulations and the lawsuit is nether investigation.
The Association of University Teachers (AUT) Tamil Nadu erstwhile president K. Pandiyan said that aft undergoing the indispensable process successful preparing the docket for the Syndicate, the Vice-Chancellor Convenor Committee had to spot the full substance related to an individual, including each kinds of pending departmental proceedings, transgression cases, and LF audit objections, earlier the Syndicate, which is the statutory rule.
These facts are indispensable to assistance the Syndicate successful interpreting the different applicable facts and pb to determine arsenic per instrumentality successful the peculiar matter. Misguiding the Syndicate to walk a solution and misusing the process of the Syndicate with an intent to tarnish its representation successful the nationalist is simply a committee of contempt, Professor Pandiyan added.
Charging that the Periyar University’s contiguous medication shows partiality among teachers, Mr. Pandiyan said that successful the aforesaid Syndicate meeting, the University placed different docket regarding the status of an adjunct professor, Vaithianathan, successful the Economics Department. In those Syndicate minutes, the University intelligibly mentioned details of a lawsuit helium filed against the University successful court, an interim enactment for a departmental enquiry against him and said the University volition instrumentality a determination connected CPS aft obtaining concurrence from the LF audit.
But the aforesaid medication did not adjacent notation immoderate allegations against Mr. Venkatachalam successful the docket portion his assignment is simply a question. We fishy determination is thing fishy successful this issue. The authorities should look into the contented and instrumentality enactment connected officials acrophobic successful this contented who misguided the Syndicate, Mr. Pandiyan added.
When contacted, 1 of the Vice-Chancellor Convenor Committee member, who requested anonymity, said that the appointments made during the said play were nether the scanner of DVAC. Six months earlier the status procedures started, Mr. Venkatachalam’s substance was astatine the preliminary signifier only. The DVAC cases oregon LF audit objections would beryllium received by the conception acrophobic and past lone the last determination connected status would beryllium taken, the subordinate added.
