Jammu Nov11: Vikas Sharma State President NSF, has taken a strong note of recent abolishment of Dogri from Distant Education mode and has held Dr Meenakshi Kilam Director Distance Education for it.He said that Director is pursuing anti-Jammu policies on the directions of Kashmiri leadership and this will not be tolerated at all and NSF in this regard is going to hold dharna in front of V.C. office on 15 Nov and Governors residence on 22 Nov against the Director Distant Education Termination.
He said that it is Dr Meenakshi Kilam who has played monopoly with the duggars and has abolished Dogri. He said that earlier students used to get Masters Degree in Dogri through Private Mode smoothly.and the only option that was left for the students was to get degree through Distance Education Mode.
Now were the students have taken admission in Maters in Dogri through Distance Education mode few months back and so far no appointment for faculty has been done by the department.
He said that when asked about the appointments of faculty, Distance Education Department is saying that the course is not approved by Director Distance Education Council (DEC) so no faculty can be provided to the students. He said that that it was play played by Dr Meenakshi Kilam to abolish the dogri from the curriculum of Jammu University on the directions of Kashmiri Leadership .
He said that She is not worth for holding the position of Director as she does not full fills the eligibility criteria of DEC.He said that she is not a professor and how is she given such a post. He said that the Director Distance Education under DEC Guide line should at least professor and if they talk of Dr.Kilam she is holding such a post as she has never hold this position of professor during her tenure in the University. This clearly shows that there is violation of DEC Guide line and there is no eye on it.
He said that during her tenure she has failed on all fronts, resulting in misuse of funds and not providing quality education to the students. He also said that a lot of funds are collected from the students and a part from this a lot of funds are given by the central agencies but there is no financial accountability regarding the utilization of fund.
Vikas Sharma has appealed the general public in particular and other political parties to come forward and fight for the abolishment of dogri the mother tongue of duggars from the curriculam of Jammu University.
Addressing the media, Surjit Choudhary Jammu District NSF president alleged that DDE management is not engaging the faculty members for the Personal Contact Programmed (P.C.P) and has given the job to outsiders to swindle the funds.
Surjit Choudhary Jammu District NSF president claimed that the Department is misusing the student funds by holding the classes for M.A Sociology and English in auditorium hall by paying huge sum of money unnecessarily putting question on the intentions of the administration.
Among those who were present in the press conference included, Gurpreet Singh, Nirender Singh, Pardeep Sharma and Surjit Kumar.