Posted by: husuu June 13, 2006
Nepotism in Kathmandu University
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Sarita Thapa jee, Thanks for your views. However, I must tell you that two wrongs can never make a right. Having or not having democracy in any other political organizations are something different from the internal functioning of Kathmandu University. Moreover, democracy has political connotations, which is better not used in case of any performance-based organization like Kathmandu University. What the employees of Kathmandu University are demanding is their rights to association and rule of law in Kathmandu University. However, the KU administration, under the aegis of Suresh Raj Sharma and Sita Ram Adhikari, has been trying to i) term the demand of the employees to recognize their association as a legitimate entity within the Kathmandu University set-up as a political ploy and ii) defame the same demand as politicking by the employees (iii) defame the righteous, honest and hard working employees as involved in political parties and trying to do politics in KU. (iv) compare KU directly with TU and put all the mess in TU on those students organizations who have been actively pursuing the cause of students while blindly ignoring the roles of administrators of TU Along the these lines the propaganda machinery of KU administration is active and they are employing their relatives living and working abroad as well as those employees who have been able to accrue undue benefits after accepting servitudes of Suresh Raj Sharma and Sitaram Adhikary. In their perspectives, they are saying that politicking would destroy this pioneer organization as if they are the only ones who would be affected by bad performance of KU. If KU suffers tomorrow and there would be no tuition paying students in KU, the first casualty will of course be the employees both the administrative and academic. Despite knowing it very well, the employees in KU are demandin that there should be respective associations. Their demand for having associations is not for the purpose of dislodging Suresh Raj Sharma and Sitaram Adhikary. By having these associations they want to streamline current activities of Kathmandu University.
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