<p>Former NCERT director Parvin Sinclair’s decision to review the national curriculum for school education at the fag end of the UPA regime has landed her in fresh trouble. <br /><br /></p>.<p>The HRD Ministry has initiated a probe into her decision to start the curriculum review along with a host of charges of “academic corruption” during her term at the council.<br /><br />Recently, the ministry asked the NCERT to provide all documents relating to Sinclair’s decision to start review of the curriculum, including those “indicating corruption in the review”, sources told Deccan Herald. <br /><br />In a letter to the council on May 26, the ministry has also called for documents indicating procedures that had to be followed for starting such a review, sources added. This comes months after Sinclair quit the NCERT, resigning half-way into her tenure on September 29 last year. <br /><br />Dinanath Batra, national president of the Shiksha Sanskriti Utthan Nyas, an outfit linked to the RSS, had objected to the review, accusing the council of starting it “in a hurry” soon after the BJP-led coalition came to power.<br /><br />The HRD Ministry is also looking into complaints that Sinclair “compelled” faculty to go to villages and teach in primary schools for three months. <br /><br />She has been accused of reducing academic programmes from 750 to 129 by flouting the procedures.<br /><br />Sinclair has further been charged with appointing non-eligible persons on “fictitious and false certificates” as well as amending the recruitment rules for academic posts without any approval of the executive committee. <br /><br />The ministry has asked the NCERT to provide documents relating to such appointments and amendments made in recruitment rules for academic posts. Besides, the ministry is carrying out a fresh probe into an accusation against Sinclair that she “circumvented” procedures to purchase Maplitho paper for printing text books immediately after taking over in 2012-13. <br /><br />The former NCERT chief has also been accused of “transferring crores of rupees in haste” for purchase of ACs, violating the norms. The ministry will also look into a complaint that Sinclair “wasted” Rs 34 lakh for renovating the director’s bungalow, but never moved in. She has also been accused of non-payment of “house rent/demurrage charges and licence fee to IGNOU for retaining a flat in ASIAD village in Delhi for two years.” <br /></p>
<p>Former NCERT director Parvin Sinclair’s decision to review the national curriculum for school education at the fag end of the UPA regime has landed her in fresh trouble. <br /><br /></p>.<p>The HRD Ministry has initiated a probe into her decision to start the curriculum review along with a host of charges of “academic corruption” during her term at the council.<br /><br />Recently, the ministry asked the NCERT to provide all documents relating to Sinclair’s decision to start review of the curriculum, including those “indicating corruption in the review”, sources told Deccan Herald. <br /><br />In a letter to the council on May 26, the ministry has also called for documents indicating procedures that had to be followed for starting such a review, sources added. This comes months after Sinclair quit the NCERT, resigning half-way into her tenure on September 29 last year. <br /><br />Dinanath Batra, national president of the Shiksha Sanskriti Utthan Nyas, an outfit linked to the RSS, had objected to the review, accusing the council of starting it “in a hurry” soon after the BJP-led coalition came to power.<br /><br />The HRD Ministry is also looking into complaints that Sinclair “compelled” faculty to go to villages and teach in primary schools for three months. <br /><br />She has been accused of reducing academic programmes from 750 to 129 by flouting the procedures.<br /><br />Sinclair has further been charged with appointing non-eligible persons on “fictitious and false certificates” as well as amending the recruitment rules for academic posts without any approval of the executive committee. <br /><br />The ministry has asked the NCERT to provide documents relating to such appointments and amendments made in recruitment rules for academic posts. Besides, the ministry is carrying out a fresh probe into an accusation against Sinclair that she “circumvented” procedures to purchase Maplitho paper for printing text books immediately after taking over in 2012-13. <br /><br />The former NCERT chief has also been accused of “transferring crores of rupees in haste” for purchase of ACs, violating the norms. The ministry will also look into a complaint that Sinclair “wasted” Rs 34 lakh for renovating the director’s bungalow, but never moved in. She has also been accused of non-payment of “house rent/demurrage charges and licence fee to IGNOU for retaining a flat in ASIAD village in Delhi for two years.” <br /></p>
