AU reveals 211 profs 'filled' 2.5K college positions

A day after anti-graft NGO Arappor Iyakkam alleged that over 353 individuals have been simultaneously employed as full-time faculty by multiple private engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu, Anna University has released its own findings revealing that as many as 211 faculty members have been filling in for 2,500 positions in multiple colleges during the current academic year.

- BINITA JAISWAL

To ensure a fair probe into the matter and punish all those involved, Anna University, which is the affiliating university for engineering colleges in the state, will soon form a highlevel probe committee. Officials from AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education) and the state higher education department will be members of the committee, sources said. Tamil Nadu Higher Education Minister K Ponmudi, too, has sought a detailed report from the university on the scam.