VC letter language under scanner

 

FROM THE TELEGRAPH

The officers meet the VC (right). (Kundan Yolmo) Siliguri, July 25: An order withdrawing the non-statutory powers of the North Bengal University registrar, Dilip Kumar Sarkar, has created resentment among the officers of the institution. What has irked the officers is not the purpose of the order, issued by the vice-chancellor, Arunava Basumajumdar, on July 22, but the “language” he had used. All 35 members of the NBU Officers’ Association in a memorandum submitted to the VC today, urged him to rephrase the preamble of the order. “As the second important officer of the institution, the registrar should not be overburdened with so many responsibilities. We have no objection if some of the registrar’s powers are delegated to other officers so that he is relived of his workload,” said Mehbub Alam, the secretary of the association. “But one of our honourable members (registrar) felt hurt by the language of the order and he has articulated it to us. We have asked the VC to look into the matter as early as possible,” said the secretary. But none of the officers were ready to explain what particular usage had hurt Sarkar. In the memorandum, the association has said “…the preamble of the order (no-F.39/VC-08/252, dated July 22) has hurt the sentiment of one of our respectable members…” Alam said: “The registrar has taken the order as a personal attack. To some extent, it has demoralised him. The VC told us that he would look into the issue but only after the uproar subsided.” The order, concerning the decentralisation of powers of the registrar, will be examined later by the association.   Both the VC and the registrar refused comment on the issue. The VC conveyed to journalists through a staff member that he did not want to discuss an internal matter of the varsity.