Just 25% 'ghost faculty' appear for univ probe
The New Indian Express|October 26, 2024
THE investigation into the ghost faculty fraud in engineering colleges affiliated to the Anna University is yet to reach a conclusion as a majority of the teachers suspected to have been involved in the illegality have failed to appear before the university's probe committees.
BINITA JAISWAL

The teachers' list was prepared after officials scoured through a database containing 52,500 records.

According to sources, after the scam was unearthed by NGO Arappor Iyakkam in July, Anna University initiated a probe and found that over 676 teachers were shown to be working as full-time faculty in multiple engineering colleges simultaneously in the academic year 2023-24.

Accordingly, show-cause notices were issued to them in August. However, so far only around 25% of them have appeared before the probe panels. This despite six probe committees being formed for various regions to help teachers avoid the trouble of travelling all the way to Chennai.

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