Withholding original document : PEIRC serves another notice to Indus Intl
Regarding illegal withholding of documents of about 40 students by the Indus International University Haroli of Una district State Private Educational Institutions Regulatory Commission served a notice on Jun 14 seeking clarification within three days.
Secretary of Himachal Pradesh Private Educational Insinuations Regulatory Commission issued a notice to Registrar Indus International University ,Una seeking that it have received a representation from Ex-employee of IIU Mr Vinod Thakur that university with hold original documents of about 50 student
The commission in one page letter issued to IIU on Jun 14 demanded clarification within three days failing which necessary action may be initiated against the university The complaint alleged that IIU is adopting malpractice by misusing the scholarship scheme facility provide by the Government for upliftment of student belonged to SC,ST and OBC category
The victim students were admitted on zero tuition fee basis on the pretext that the tuition fee would be taken from Govt. Certificate of some students who took admission but later left the IIU to study elsewhere were kept by the university which is illegal and then the administration demands Tuition fees from the students even students left the courses and not attended the classes.
The complaint Approximately 40 students had taken admission in 2017 and left the course they neither attended any classes nor appeared in any examination but the university withhold their original documents and applied for the scholarship.
It is to be mentioned the scholarship of those students were applied who were not studying in the university which is a fraud .
The University withhold the original document and applied for the scholarship itself .Scholarship received to students accounts The University returned the original document of some of students only after taking tuition fees
The complaint alleged that every year the university is claiming such scholarships and recovering from students by
by blackmailing them on account of original documents The practice is adopted by the university by year after year The complaint said demanding enquiry in this regard against the IIU demanding to recover the scholarship fee from the university.
The commission also issued six page order on Jun 4 on the basis of a complaint filed against the
IIU for withholding original certificates or documents of a student including 10th & 12 Marks-sheet, caste and income certificate, Himachali Bonafide, Adhar Card and PNB Pass book .
On Jun 10 National Commission for Schedule Caste took cognizance pulling up the state for an attempt by University to withhold the original documents of some SC students seeking an action report in the matter . NCSC also issued a notice to Himachal govt to take immediate action on the incident of not returning original papers to students, not jeopardize precious careers.