If the reply to an RTI application is to be believed, Vasanthi Kadhiravan, the reader for the physical education department of the Mumbai University, does not have the requisite qualifications.
Kadhiravan was recently promoted to the post of in-charge head of department and also holds the position of the chairman of board of studies.
The RTI was filed by research student Santosh Gangurde. “I approached every college she claimed to have worked with and tallied her claims with the University Grants Commission (UGV) norms,” said Gangurde, who is a member of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena.
According to Gangurde, Kadhiravan doesn’t have research experience and claims she has 13 years of teaching experience at Narsee Monjee College as director of physical education.
However, in another RTI, the college said they didn’t have the course.
When contacted, Kadhiravan said: “I meet all the requirements of the UGC. The director’s post is considered as a teaching experience.”
A reader guides students aspiring for doctorate. A reader must have a doctorate, five years of research experience and teaching experience at the under-graduate and post-graduate level.
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