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GUWAHATI
Teachers, non-teaching unit and students of Assam’s Tezpur University demanded enactment against “absconding” Vice-Chancellor Shambhu Nath Singh, who has allegedly not been contiguous connected the field since September 22, connected Friday (October 31, 2025).
The Tezpur University Teachers’ Association (TUTA) called for Mr. Singh’s contiguous removal implicit “serious irregularities” successful the procurement of books and e-resources during the 2024-25 fiscal year.
Mr. Singh had earlier been accused of corruption and administrative mismanagement, isolated from disrespecting Assamese taste icon Zubeen Garg aft helium died successful Singapore connected September 19. He allegedly stayed distant from the assemblage for 388 days betwixt April 2023 and September 2025.
According to TUTA, the assemblage received ₹6.5 crore nether the University Grants Commission’s (UGC) Capital Assets scheme. Of this, astir ₹4.5 crore was spent connected books and e-resources, the bulk of which was awarded to a tiny radical of Delhi-based vendors.
“The process of vendor enactment appeared arbitrary and successful usurpation of established General Financial Rules 2017, raising sedate concerns astir transparency and governance. Many of these vendors person antecedently been linked to the Bodoland University publication procurement controversy, which progressive allegations of inflated pricing and proviso of substandard materials,” TUTA said.
TUTA highlighted that ₹1.04 crore was spent connected the acquisition of e-resources that show “alarming signs of irregularity”. Many of these titles were recovered to deficiency credible publishing details, ISBN verification, oregon world authenticity, portion immoderate e-books – billed astatine exorbitant rates – were freely disposable online oregon were of dubious origin, it said.
TUTA urged the UGC, the Ministry of Education, and different competent authorities to initiate a forensic audit of the full procurement process and region the Vice-Chancellor from bureau pending inquiry. “Accountability indispensable statesman astatine the top. When nationalist funds and organization credibility are compromised, enactment indispensable answer. We judge the contiguous removal of the Vice Chancellor is indispensable to guarantee a just and transparent investigation,” the relation said.
TUTA and the Tezpur University Non-Teaching Employees’ Association person been demonstrating against the Vice-Chancellor for much than a month. On October 29, members of these organisations came successful achromatic attire and achromatic masks to protestation against “corruption and injustice”.
The Tezpur University Students’ Fraternity person besides been demanding the Vice-Chancellor’s ouster for his “mismanagement and authoritarian regularisation to suppress voices of dissent”.
The Vice-Chancellor was not instantly disposable for comment.
