Posted by: paankopat June 10, 2006
Nepotism in Kathmandu University
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Ashu, Let me also quote from “जनआस्था साप्ताहिक,ज्येष्ठ २४, २०६३” which goes on like “सदनबाट पास गर्राई आफ्नो बुताले खोलेको विश्वविद्यालय ठानी लौरो टेकेर भए पनि आजन्म उपकुलपति र रजिष्ट्रार बन्ने षड्यन्त्र गरी त्यहीअनुरुपको संयन्त्र उनले तयार पारेका छन् ।” Yeah, it is true that Suresh Raj Sharma has developed very good machinaries in KU. The first is KU adminstrative machinary where you will find every strategic position filled with his own relatives. Like those unfortunate teachers who were terminated after 9 years of service in KU, no body would get justice in KU because of the same administrative machinary patronized by Suresh Raj Sharma. Let me give you one instance. These victimized teachers, who were terminated after 9 years of service in KU” first went to the dean. Dean listened to them and told them to meet Registrar. Then, they met registrar and registrar asked them to wait till Executive Council deliberates on it. However, when the Executive Council deliberated on it, Suresh Raj and Sita Ram ruthlessly sacked these teachers. Thereafter, these teachers contacted some members of the governing board, the senate, and pleaded their case with the member. First, the member was very arrogant and was not ready to entertain the complaints against Suresh Raj Sharma and Registrar. When the faculties pleaded for half an hour, out of sudden, he was inquistiive about Suresh Raj Sharma. It appeared as if he was testing whether the faculties were genuine victims of Suresh Raj Sharma and Sitaram Adhikari. Thereafter, while agreeing with most of the complaints of those sacked facutlies, the senate member was telling that he has also heard about many instances of the corruption and nepostism of Suresh Raj Sharma and Sitaram Adhikary. When the faculties asked him why then the senate, the governing body of KU, is not taking action against Suresh Raj Sharma, then he outrightly said that he was chicken. He explained that he did not want to be a sigle member to raise such questions at the senate meeting and he suspected that Suresh Raj Sharma usually sounds out other senate members on how should they respond to his recos beforehand. He said that in some past meetings also, he tried to raise some issues and then he was shouted down by the spoons and chachas of Suresh Raj Sharma. Thereafter, he thought it useless to raise such issues in senate meeting. At last he said that all you faculties have worked with Suresh Raj for 9 years and you knew how he behaved. Perhaps, the parting sentence of the senate member throws light on the personal characterisctics of Suresh Raj Sharma. Having developed such good administrative machinery which involves some clerical accountant to high profile senate members, another machinary that Suresh Raj and Sitaram have developed over the years is their propaganda machinary. According to them, they developed KU as if they spent their own money. In every meeting, both internally and outside, both these gentlemen would speak in tandem on the history of KU while praising themselves. Students, faculties and some senate members can now verbatim produce back how these two gentlemen would speak and what they would speak. Yeah, there were occasions, when some speakers have sarcastically remarked that since both these great men have already spoken about KU, there was nothing left for him to inform. This is the first part of the propanda of indiscriminately dominating the history of KU so that everybody would eulogize them. Similalry, by interwining themselves with KU’s history, they have tried to give false impression that they own KU and the ownership of KU should flow in herediatary manner. Faculties who saw through this game plan already left KU because Suresh Raj and Sitaram are systematically claiming ownership to estblish first herediatery academic leadership in the entire world. On the other hand, if some one ever contradicts what Suresh Raj Sharma has spoken, then it is sure that Suresh Raj would never forget that person and starts nursing the grouse for entire life. There are instances when some upright people confronted Suresh Raj Sharma face to face and they realized only on those moments what constitutes this man. They were really shocked to find Suresh Raj Sharma unleashing verbal diatribe against that person. Having cursed seven generations of that person, Suresh Raj immidiately broke down into emotional hysteria in order to evoke some pity from the same person. His emotional hysteria was, no doubt, targeted to evoke pity for his greed on becoming vice-chancellor of KU for life. Perhaps, this is what meant by the parting sentence of that senate members who were met by the sacked faculty members. If the adminstrative machinery developed by Suresh Raj Sharma ensures that no complaints on his highhandedness is entertained, then the propaganda machinery coupled with his histronics ensures that no body ever dares to take on him. With these two traits, he has remained in KU for 15 years as vice-chancellor while promoting those who bown down before him and who accepts his servitude unquestioningly. In these 15 years, there are many faculty members, who left KU, not because they are not interested in serving in one of the budding academic institutes, but because they can no longer bear such vicious machinations of Suresh Raj Sharma and Sitaram Adhikari. In view of such machinations and mechanims, it is highly likely that nobody would ever get justice in KU system, be it executive council or be it the senate itself. Since all the doors of KU are closed for the hapless but diligent workers of KU, the only one option they have left is to go to the newspapers and tell the entire world how justice is denied to them and how they were exploited in KU by Suresh Raj Sharma and Sitaram Adhikari. Moreover, if Suresh Raj Sharma and Sitaram Adhikary are above board, not corrupt, not promoting nepostism and not getting undue benefits, then they should not have any problem if some one complains at an opportune forum. Moreover, if both Suresh Raj Sharma and Sitaram Adhikary can use KU’s hard earned money for their personal propaganda and countering the complaints of the faculty members in the media, there is no way to deny the same rights to othe complainants. Thus, by going into media and by telling the truth to the entire Nepalis from Mechi to Mahakali, who are the real governing board of entire Nepal, the sacked faculty members and other faculty members did the most reasonable thing. Therefore, trying to hinder the voices of the faculty members from getting heard is dictatorial and smacks of some unseen unhealthy practices in KU by Suresh Raj Sharma and Sitaram Adhikari. Regarding the word “mandale” we should not be confused by now what Suresh Raj has done by sacking those faculty members. Mandales may attack one physically, but Suresh Raj has preferred to attack one’s entire family by making the breadearner of the family jobless. Moreover, the past misdeeds of Suresh Raj Sharma during his tenure in Budhanilkanth School and other orgnizations also point out that throughout his administrative carerr, Suresh Raj has always remained anti-teacher and dictatorial. ####################### On a larger note, we should not forget that in KU, the fight is between one of the stakeholders of the entire university, the teachers, and one greedy, corrupt, and nepotistic adminstrator Suresh Raj Sharma. Unlike other institutes where generally tug of war ensues between two competing candidates, in KU, the tug of war is between the stakeholders and the adminstrator duo. These two individual adminstrator are being criticized not because all the teachers want to occupy their positions or posts. All the teachers want rule of law in KU not the rule of whims and fancies of Sharma and Adhikary. Therefore, we need to view ongoing tussle in KU in somewhat different way because it involves prevailing academic culture and greed of two academic administrators of Nepal. Peace!
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