Statesman News Service
MALDA, 27 JAN: The executive council of Gour Banga University (GBU) in Malda will hold a meeting on 28 January to discuss the appointment of its new registrar which was kept in abeyance since past few days.
GBU authorities have sought the intervention of Burdwan University (BU) and have asked for a report on the alleged plagiarism incident in which the newly appointed registrar, Dr Bikash Mukherjee, was involved. Dr Mukherjee was a senior information scientist of BU. However, Professor Gopa Datta, vice chancellor of GBU, said that she had not received the report from the BU authorities yet.
“I have not received the report yet. The council can not derive any conclusion over the matter without the BU report. The matter has been kept in abeyance for the time being and EC will be taking the final decision”, Prof Datta said.
Dr Mukherjee has already written a letter to the state governor, who is also the chancellor of the university, seeking his help in this regard. Copies of this letter have been sent to all the concerned officials including the chief minister and the higher education minister.
In his letter, Dr Mukherjee explained the matter explicitly and admitted that he committed a mistake by not acknowledging the name of the foreign writer whose writing he referred to in his special article. But he further added in the letter that he had mentioned the original writer’s name later in his article.
The present registrar, Dr Tapas Chatterjee will resign on 28 January and hand over his post and duties to Mr Apurba Chakraborty.
However, it was learnt that though an appointment letter was issued and Dr Mukherjee was asked to join his post from 18 January, the GBU council decided otherwise and kept his joining in abeyance till the plagiarism dispute was resolved.
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