The ground floor which houses both VC’s office and registrar’s office, is a matter of curiosity, just after the public display of discomfort between them. While the Vice Chancellor declared ibrahim ‘unfit’ to be part of academia, Ibrahim said this was a mere ‘administrative’ post and according to Karnataka Universities Act 2000, only KAS officer or equivalent can don the position.
“I have been appointed by the government of Karnataka and shall take orders only from the government. There have been no violations of any sort during my period. I do not handle finance at all, so there is no question of financial irregularities. I am open for an enquiry and I actually sought one to maintain clean records,” said Ibrahim, speaking to Deccan Herald. He said he was appalled at the latest developments and especially, the last press conference with VC.
“I just got a note from his office that I had to attend media briefing. No other information was provided,” he said.
Is there a strong reason for his silence at the press conference? “Yes, I am an officer and this is the way I function. If anything has gone wrong, I shall reply clearly in writing. I prefer to stay away from verbal allegations,” he clarified.
However, he did try reasoning out as to why the exam results for the last academic year were delayed, as accused by the VC. “We conducted 88 sessions of exams, which is exactly double the number of sessions we have handled so far. This caused the delay and students never complained about it,” he added.
In the continuing series of complaints against the appointments made by the Mysore University flouting norms, a candidate Chandrashekhara has approached Governor Rameshwar Thakur alleging his candidature - despite posessing required credentials - was overlooked for an appointment in Kannada Studies Centre. He had applied for the post of Lecturer Kannada (translation) after the vacancy was announed on April 19, 2007 from qualified candidates belonging to General Merit category.  Armed with a PhD, a diploma and M Phil in translation and ten years of teaching experience in the same department, Chandrashekara was rejected by the Board of Appointments. He was flabbergasted to find that the candidate who was given the appointment order did not have doctorate at the time of appearing for the interview. Not only that, the candidate had not passed relevant exams (NET and SLET) which are mandatory to qualify for the post.
The Board of Appointments had already prefixed “Dr” to the name of favoured candidate who had submitted the thesis on June 22, 2007. He had not completed his PhD at the time of interview. In an attempt to clear up the mess, the Mysore University Syndicate met to approve the recommendations made by the Board of Appointments on July 28. His PhD was taken for evaluation and he was awarded the degree in a hurry with the chances of University Syndicate deferring the decision to approve the candidate.