MALDA, 18 JAN: The Gour Banga University (GBU) registrar, Mr Tapas Chatterjee would resign on 28 January handing over char to Mr Apurba Chakraborty, lecturer, History department.
The GBU had earlier appointed Dr Bikash Mukherjee as the new registrar through an advertisement and interview, but the appointment of Dr Mukherjee has been kept in “abeyance”.
According to the outgoing registrar, Mr Tapas Chaterjee, the GBU authority has asked Dr Mukherjee not to join till fresh instructions following a plagiarism complaint against him is sorted out.
Dr Mukherjee is currently a senior information scientist in Burdwan University. It is learnt that it would take at least some months to appoint a new registrar of the present ‘one man’ panel for registrar is cancelled.
The GBU council met on 15 January and decided against allowing Dr Mukherjee to join registrar till the plagiarism dispute is cleared.
According to the complaint, Dr Mukherjee had allegedly copied an article from a foreign journal for writing a paper, which was published in his name seven years ago without giving credit to the foreign writer.
“The council members have sought a report form the Burdwan University authority on the alleged plagiarism incident”, Mr Chatterjee informed.
The newly appointed registrar Dr Bikash Mukherjee, admitted that he committed a mistake by not acknowledging the name of the foreign writer though he corrected it later.
“After receiving no objection certificate from the Burdwan University I applied for the registrar’s post. The Burdwan University allowed me to go to university in Sudan. I cannot understand why my rivals are raising such plagiarism issue and dishonesty charges against me”, Dr Bikash Mukherjee said over phone from Burdwan.
“Some candidates who were not selected as registrar by the interview board, has lodged the complaint against me”, he claimed. SNS
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