How Kidar Bansal adamantly refused to bribe corrupt AICTE officials and faced torment for years before the wrongdoers were finally trapped by the CBI. An exclusive by Anil Pandey
According to Bansal, the engineering college he runs is a dream that might come true for his children. More than 20 years ago, Bansal took voluntary retirement from a government job and became an entrepreneur dabbling in sanitary ware. His son-in-law Deepak Mittal is a graduate of IIT, Delhi and runs his own software business. The son Naresh too went to IIT, Delhi and then IIM, Bangalore before going on to do a Ph.D in the US. Naresh is now in America with his wife who is herself a Ph.D in Chemistry and a professor. Bansal dreams and hopes that his children will eventually come back home and take over his legacy. For now, he refuses even to think about how bad things were when Arjun Singh was the HRD Minister.It is only after Kapil Sibal took charge that things started finally moving. CBI officials reveal in private that they could have nailed R.A Yadav long ago.
Even now, they say he is allegedly using every political and bureaucratic contact of his to escape punishment. Relief for people like Bansal will be complete when Yadav is sacked from AICTE.
But for Minister Sibal, the challenge is even bigger. There have been repeated calls from respected educationists that both AICTE and UGC are relics that are moth balled, corrupt, dysfunctional and deeply injurious to higher education in India. The Knowledge Commission headed by Sam Pitroda has even called for an abolition of the bodies. And people close to Sibal say that the Minister is aware of how formidable the challenge is; just as he is acutely aware that both AICTE and UGC have become a joke. And this is causing irreparable damage to the education system in India. The ISB is not recognized and many private institutions are simply not willing to go through the torture of bribing officials in AICTE and UGC to get ‘recognition’. And yet, this very system has persistently encouraged corrupt officials to form an unholy nexus with even alleged criminals and fugitives masquerading as educationists.
B&E strongly believes that the CBI raids, the arrests and the decisiveness shown by Sibal is just the beginning. We promise to keep exposing misdeeds of corrupt education officials & fraud educationists at every opportunity we get. This relic of the license-permit era has been destroying education for too long. It’s time to stop them.
Even now, they say he is allegedly using every political and bureaucratic contact of his to escape punishment. Relief for people like Bansal will be complete when Yadav is sacked from AICTE.
But for Minister Sibal, the challenge is even bigger. There have been repeated calls from respected educationists that both AICTE and UGC are relics that are moth balled, corrupt, dysfunctional and deeply injurious to higher education in India. The Knowledge Commission headed by Sam Pitroda has even called for an abolition of the bodies. And people close to Sibal say that the Minister is aware of how formidable the challenge is; just as he is acutely aware that both AICTE and UGC have become a joke. And this is causing irreparable damage to the education system in India. The ISB is not recognized and many private institutions are simply not willing to go through the torture of bribing officials in AICTE and UGC to get ‘recognition’. And yet, this very system has persistently encouraged corrupt officials to form an unholy nexus with even alleged criminals and fugitives masquerading as educationists.
B&E strongly believes that the CBI raids, the arrests and the decisiveness shown by Sibal is just the beginning. We promise to keep exposing misdeeds of corrupt education officials & fraud educationists at every opportunity we get. This relic of the license-permit era has been destroying education for too long. It’s time to stop them.
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
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and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
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Prof. Rajita Chaudhuri's Website
domain-b.com : IIPM ranked ahead of IIMs
Arindam Chaudhuri's Portfolio - he is at his candid best by Society Magazine
IIPM Best B School India
Management Guru Arindam Chaudhuri
Rajita Chaudhuri-The New Age Woman
IIPM's Management Consulting Arm-Planman Consulting
Professor Arindam Chaudhuri - A Man For The Society....
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