The Director of this premier technical institution of the region has been alleged of corrupt practices, irregularities and plagiarism by AAPSU (All Arunachal Pradesh Students Union) and the student’s body submitted a memorandum to the Governor for removal of the Director within a week’s time, the failure of which would lead AAPSU to take its own course of action in association with NESO (North East Students Organization).

In a report appearing in the 5^th November edition of The Arunachal Times, the students’ body alleges-

“Prof. K. Kumar was found guilty for plagiarism by Committee of Experts on examination of one of his recent papers. The Expert Committee constituted of three retired academics and their own initiative investigated oneof Prof. Kumar’s papers and found him guilty of plagiarism.

There are three other papers of his that’s been copied from other’s research. The ExpertCommittee further accused Prof. K. Kumar and A.K. Singh of copying about 80% of the original work. S.N. Singh and P.K. Bordoloi of NERIST are two other authors who have plagiarized paper along with K.Kumar.”

Further, the students’ body alleged Prof. Kalyan Kumar of using fraudulent means to get himself appointed as the Director of NERIST without taking clearance from CVC (Central Vigilance Commission) when a corruption case was pending against him. Besides, he has been alleged of taking bribe for awarding contracts; irregularities in appointment of lecturer’s without following UGC norms, irregularities in MBA admissions and atrocities and discriminations on ST/SC faculty members. The President of AAPSU, Kanu Bagang questions,“How can any institute that produce human resources for the region and the country as a whole be in the hands of a fraud and a moocher of Intellectual Property Rights?”

Earlier the Institution was entangled in a controversy when NERIST Employees Union General Secretary and LDC (Lower Divisional Clerk) accused the authorities of harassing, suspension and his arrest on fabricated charges. The only crime that he committed was (according to the report) that he stood up against the authority and sought information under RTI Act; related to appointment of the Director. Apparently, the Central Information Commission (CIC) has served a show cause notice to the Registrar of the Institution for denying information under the Act and for threatening the employee for using RTI Act and had asked the Registrar to appear before the Commission by 5^th November.

Huh! So much of a rot in the system.

Update:
Read more about the above controversy here and wikipedia entry here.