Friday, March 15, 2013

Dinesh Kamath's news item 'Shocking revelations about a college in Navi Mumbai; The college is run by the family of minister' that was published in Newsband




Shocking revelations about a college in Navi Mumbai
The college is run by the family of minister
By Dinesh Kamath
NAVI MUMBAI: The three-member Local Inquiry Committee (LIC) had conducted inquiry into the matter relating to MSS College of Commerce in Navi Mumbai. This college is run by higher and technical education minister Rajesh Tope's family. The inquiry committee found that the college lacked teachers approved by the university and also necessary infrastructure. The college is run in a residential complex at Vashi.
The college had come up in 2007-08 and at that time Tope’s family had promised to shift the college to some other place within five years. But the promise was not kept.
All these facts came to light only when Maharashtra Navnirman Vidyarthi Sena's Santosh Gangurde filed the RTI application.
Tope said that he will rectify his mistake by shutting down the college if he fails to shift it to a new location soon. He tried to defend that although the teachers of his college were not those approved by the university, they were well qualified. He admitted that something was seriously wrong with the building where the college was being run and that he had hopes of finding a solution to this problem.  
The inquiry also led to the revelation of the fact that the college did not have a proper library or a qualified librarian or proper reference books. The college did not even have proper sports ground and facilities. The students were far less in number than the allotted strength. The infrastructures and other facilities provided in the college were shockingly poor. 
The university had first set up the inquiry committee after a complaint by MNVS secretary Gajanan Kale. 

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