Palamu admin asks NPU to vacate Pro VC quarter

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Palamu admin asks NPU to vacate Pro VC quarter

Saturday, 08 February 2020 | PNS | DALTONGANJ

Nilamber Pitamber University is in utter quandary Palamu district administration has served two quick and hard hitting letters to the university’s registrar JN Shekhar to vacate the D 3 type quarter allotted to the Pro Vice Chancellor and in the event of university not vacating this quarter the administration has kept its option ready to get it vacated in presence of a magistrate which in legal parlance is called ‘eviction’.

Sources said way back in 2009 when NPU came into existence when under order of the Raj Bhavan Ranchi the then DC Palamu Amitabh Kaushal was directed  to arrange suitable accommodation for NPU VC then and in that series the then administration had given a D 3 type quarter to Pro VC of this university as well.

VC’s quarter is E type while Pro VC’s is D type.

Sources said the district administration has taken this hard stand just because this quarter is locked since September 2019 following the quitting of the then Pro VC P K Poddar who left from here for Bihar.

Sources said the contention of the district administration is that since this quarter is not in occupancy over the last many months the university should have handed it over to the district administration, which it did not and so it must vacate now.

Sources said on one hand the district administration bats for its getting vacated and in its own letter given to registrar Shekhar it asks the university to apply for allotment of quarter.

This conflict of interest on the part of the administration is ambiguous.

Sources said the district administration has grossly overlooked a major fact that the university is up to date in rent payment even said its registrar J N Shekhar “ Rent of this quarter is paid up to March 2020.”

Sources said the district administration accuses university of violating quarter norms while the fact of the matter is that the university kept this quarter locked once its last occupant P K Poddar left the job in this university and the university did not put in any of its other official to live in this quarter in all these months and there is no plan either for any other to live here except the notified Pro VC on his/ her joining this university. It genuinely preferred to keep it locked.

It was never sub let or sub occupied by any official. 

VC NPU S N Singh said, “The university has received two quick letters from deputy collector In charge General Section of Palamu Collectorate asking us to vacate this quarter meant for our Pro VC.

 

The district administration again also asks us to apply for allotment of quarter for the same officer.”

He added, “We urge the deputy commissioner Palamu to appreciate our difficulties as our university is working in a rented building of Palamu Zila Parishad since 2009 as we do not have our own building and now if this quarter is asked to be vacated then where the university will keep its assets which include articles of all sorts from drawing room, bed room, office room, kitchen ware Ac fittings, TV set, to toiletry etc.”

 “We retained this quarter under lock and key and continued to pay rent well in advance like this rent paid up to March 2020. If we do not have any Pro VC right here we can’t help. We believe the government will soon send in Pro VC here,” he said.

DC Palamu Shantanu Kumar Agrahari said, “ This issue has been brought to my notice. I am taking updates on this issue. I have asked registrar of this university to meet me. I do not think there is any reason to be so worried or tense over it.”

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