<p>A professor in a city-based college has allegedly committed suicide, because he thought the process to select vice-chancellors of universities is mired in corruption. <br /><br /></p>.<p>The suicide comes at a time when the search is on to appoint a new vice-chancellor to the University of Mysore (UoM), with the term of the incumbent, Prof V G Talwar, set to end soon.<br /> <br />Prof U B Ashok Kumar, 52, Head of the Department of Sociology of the Maharaja’s Evening College (which comes under UoM) and a resident of New Kantharaj Urs Road, has left behind a death note expressing dissatisfaction about the system.<br /><br />System condemned<br /><br />He was a native of Channagiri taluk in Davangere district. According to police, Kumar had been to Hassan for a function, along with his wife Cheluvambika and two daughters. <br /><br />However, Kumar returned home alone the same night. On Thursday morning, his wife and children returned, only to find him hanging from the ceiling.<br /><br />Police said, the professor, in a death note addressed to the President of India, has resented the system in which crores of rupees are spent by aspirants to become vice-chancellors and the need to rectify the same. <br /><br />A day’s holiday was declared for the college as a mark of respect for Kumar. Saraswatipuram police have registered a case.<br /></p>
<p>A professor in a city-based college has allegedly committed suicide, because he thought the process to select vice-chancellors of universities is mired in corruption. <br /><br /></p>.<p>The suicide comes at a time when the search is on to appoint a new vice-chancellor to the University of Mysore (UoM), with the term of the incumbent, Prof V G Talwar, set to end soon.<br /> <br />Prof U B Ashok Kumar, 52, Head of the Department of Sociology of the Maharaja’s Evening College (which comes under UoM) and a resident of New Kantharaj Urs Road, has left behind a death note expressing dissatisfaction about the system.<br /><br />System condemned<br /><br />He was a native of Channagiri taluk in Davangere district. According to police, Kumar had been to Hassan for a function, along with his wife Cheluvambika and two daughters. <br /><br />However, Kumar returned home alone the same night. On Thursday morning, his wife and children returned, only to find him hanging from the ceiling.<br /><br />Police said, the professor, in a death note addressed to the President of India, has resented the system in which crores of rupees are spent by aspirants to become vice-chancellors and the need to rectify the same. <br /><br />A day’s holiday was declared for the college as a mark of respect for Kumar. Saraswatipuram police have registered a case.<br /></p>
