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Bhopal:
Bhopal-based Maulana Azad National
Institute of Technology (MANIT) - a premier educational institute
of India in a bid to bolster its sagging image has decided to go
overboard and reach out to the public at large through the media
regarding its Vision and Mission.
Dogged by scams, corruption charges
and controversies over the last few years, the MANIT administration
has girded up its loin to provide justice to one and all and
transparency in its working to stop wagging tongues from ruining the
institute of national importance.
Addressing a Press conference here on
Thursday its Director Dr. R. P. Singh, Ph.D. (Electronics Engg.),
declared that MANIT looks forward to become a “Centre of Global
Technical Knowledge”, wherein there is a creation, assimilation,
evaluation and application of knowledge.
Dr. Singh said MANIT's strategies are
for effectively meeting the ever-increasing challenges of
technology, human resources and the responsibility towards the
society. MANIT no longer wishes to be an Institute in isolation
existing on top of a hill, but wishes to reach out to the city and
the country while playing its role in bringing out young
technologists, scientists and engineers, to make the world a better
place. MANIT looks forward to Public Participation in its research,
institutional partnerships in educational, technological and
administrative functions, he added.
He said that MANIT, which was formerly
known as MACT (Maulana Azad College of Technology), is working
towards the initiation of industry-Institute Linkages to develop
problem solving capabilities at analytical and experimental
techniques.
The MANIT Board of Governors led by
its chairman A. N. Singh, a retired Director General of Madhya
Pradesh Police, members Vipin Mullick and Khalid Rauf, both alumni
of MANIT, and Deans of various faculties such as Dr. Gayatri
Agnihotri, Dr. P. Suryanarayan, Dr. D. M. Deshpande, Dr. R. K. Dube,
Dr. G. Dixit, Dr. V.K. Khare along with Ms Savita Raje (Landscape
Architect), Public Relations Officer, were present at the Press
conference.
Dr. Singh said MANIT's Vision is to
produce technical professionals abreast with competencies, mind-set
and ethical values synchronous with the futuristic requirements of
global business so as to strengthen the national economy.
He informed that the institutional
Mission Statements includes:
(i). to design, develop and
implement curricula of various programmes using dynamic & responsive
processes, in tune with the needs of the global industry and
economy.
(ii). to develop personality of
all learners, faculty & employees in order to infuse with pro-active
leadership, innovativeness, entrepreneurial abilities, required
competencies relevant to the profession and interpersonal
communications.
(iii). to induce in engineers/
technologists and trainees a mind-set full of creativity to pursue
excellence with customer focus, accountability and caring for
environment & people.
(iv). Ensure an environment
where students, faculty and staff are encouraged to enhance their
intellectual curiosity and improve their technical and professional
skills through Continuous Development Programmes.
& (v). to promote reforms in
the assessment/ evaluation processes, ensuring reliable and valid
assessment and certification of abilities of learners.
Chairman A. N. Singh said that MANIT
Board of Governors' Vision is to work towards the development of
MANIT as an institute with global visibility, by generating an
environment that nurtures the inherent creativity in the youth and
by a sustainable maintenance of quality in all the aspects of the
Institute. The endeavour is to develop MANIT as a sustainable
Innovation Incubator which is sought after at an international
level. To make the presence of MANIT indispensable at National
level, to make MANIT act like a life-giving, throbbing heart,
situated in the State of Madhya Pradesh, the heart of India, he
added.
While talking about the Mission, Singh
said the Board is committed to achieve the above through
time-sensitive action plans and concentrated efforts and focused
approach. It envisages a sustainable growth that would raise the
Institute to the heights of glory it deserves.
Replying to a question Singh assured
that law will take its own course against those who are found guilty
after investigations, are completed in the various scams which are
underway at present. "None will be spared to go scot free", he
asserted.
It may be recalled here that MANIT in
the 1960s when it was called MACT after it was transferred from the
Polytechnic building to the present new campus was embroiled in much
controversy, series of corruption charges and high-handedness of the
management. Then the Governor of Madhya Pradesh used to be the
chairman of the Board of Governors while the Principal of MACT was
all powerful to run the day-to-day affairs of the college. The then
Principal of the college J. N. Moudgil exploiting this adopted
dictatorial attitude towards students and staff alike which was the
root cause of all the ills that pervaded the campus then. He ran the
college as his fiefdom in an arbitrary manner without having any
regards to the laid down rules.
Things continued to deteriorate in the
campus after he joined the College in 1962. He terminated the
services of many staff members from peons to professors’ level, who
did not see eye to eye with him and opposed many of his financial
bungling in the construction of buildings in the new campus, on
flimsy grounds without taking prior sanction of the Board of
Governors. In some cases of dismissal of employees when court
demanded ratified copy of the termination orders it was done in back
dates. He got the service rules amended arbitrarily to strike at
will at his opponents who did not approve the plunder of building
funds and other gross violation of rules of the college.
The student community was also victim
of harassment following Principal Moudgil's many whimsical orders.
When all limits of students' patience crossed they decided to settle
score with him. In 1968 students from the hostels in the dead of
night rushed to Moudgil's official residence in the campus and laid
a siege around it. They demanded of him to come out to listen to
their woes. When he did not respond to their calls the students
disconnected the electric and telephone lines and ransacked the
house. They pushed his car out of the garage and set it ablaze to
release their pent up anger against him. Police rushed thereafter to
rescue Moudgil and his family which had taken refuge in a bathroom
of the house.
Later, Moudgil was forced to go on
long leave and an inquiry was ordered against him but nothing
concrete came out. Thus, he went scot free despite all his acts of
omissions and commissions which he committed with impunity.
So, controversies plaguing MANIT is not new phenomena
as the chain of events of 1960s reveal it amply. However, many
including the present administration may not be in the know of
things of its chequered past. It has been stated here briefly to
take lessons from the past unsavoury incidents.
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