CBI finds assets worth Rs 1.7 cr with AICTE chairman
BS Reporter / New Delhi Jul 18, 2009, 01:24 IST
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has found assets (including cash) worth slightly over Rs 2 crore from the residential and official premises of AICTE Chairman R A Yadav and advisor H C Rai.
This was revealed to mediapersons here today by CBI even as it registered a case against Yadav, Rai, Deputy Director Robinder Randhawa and regional officer Om Dalal on alleged bribery charges. The investigation agency also arrested member secretary K Narayan Rao and S B Subba Rao, a middleman, for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 5,00,000 from an owner of engineering college in Andhra Pradesh. They were caught red-handed after the middleman had allegedly asked him for a bribe of Rs 20 lakh on behalf of the member secretary for inspection and approval of his college and had agreed to accept Rs 500,000 as the first instalment.
CBI seized Rs 1.7 crore worth cash, fixed deposits and investments from Yadav besides a 250 square yard plot in Gurgaon. “We raided different places and found cash and deposits worth Rs 1.7 crore from H C Rai’s house besides various plots in Greater Noida, Ghaziabad and Rohini,” the CBI spokesperson said. AICTE officials remained unavailable for comment despite repeated attempts.
The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), meanwhile, is waiting for a formal report from CBI and may suspend K Narayan Rao for allegedly accepting the bribe, according to a source close to the development.
The agency also conducted surprise raids on the offices and residences of the regional officer of AICTE’s Bhopal and Chennai where some files were recovered.
In a related incident, the Bhopal branch of CBI has registered a case of abuse of official position by regional officer Sanjay Sharma in facilitating the approval of chain of engineering colleges at Bhopal of Radha Raman Group of Institutes.
Hi their, i am student of one flawed institute in Mumbai where their are 10 ppl are more than approved. I seen my number in AICTE approved list in last september,but now i am afraid that the institute as replaced my name by other student..... the question is ...is this can happen by any way?......i will aprisiate if any one can help me in this regard......please write me on pgoldyy@yahoo.com...i tried it get from aicte but i was not given satisfactory answer.....
We all know from long time that AICTE = All India Corruption in Technical Education. It has ruined the quality of technical Education after its existence in India. All such inspector institutions should abolished. Jai Ho !
There is something else behind the raids on AICTE officials. During elections they were asked to arrange huge some by politicians, which these corrupt could not arrange. So this is more of a revenge for not funding elections. AICTE receives every year not less than Rs.400 crore in bribes, in order to allow smooth functioning of Engineering, Management, Hotel management and other technical institutes.
Such news, involving public bodies intended to enforce norms for education, training, and so on, are not beyond belief, but due to their frequency with no real, effective actions to punish the criminals, the situation is seemingly beyond rectification. It is doubtful whether we can really function as a genuine democracy while such apex bodies are afflicted with the cancer of corruption. The very rampancy of these criminals throughout the country, in both central and state bodies, makes the task of any rectification too daunting, especially with our corrupt politicians and their links with the very same violators of law they appoint for regulating and promoting high standards in various fields of education, especially professional and higher education.
AICTE is not All India Council for Technical Education. It is correctly All Included Commission Taking Exexutive!. Will the law of the land hang them for hanging the nation building task? This watch dog of education is itself a dog worth watching
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