Tag: Visva Bharati

  • Ex-Visva Bharati pupil information criticism towards V-C for inflicting ‘psychological harassment’ to Amartya Sen

    By way of PTI

    KOLKATA: A former pupil of Visva Bharati has filed a criticism with police towards Vice-Chancellor Bidyut Chakraborty and two different officers, accusing them of inflicting “psychological harassment” to Nobel laureate Amartya Sen over land eviction.

    The complainant, Trisha Rani Bhattacharya, took exception to the “verbal abuse of the sort of character by way of calling him a land grabber and encroacher”, and demanded strict motion as according to felony provisions.

    Bhattacharya, in a letter to the Officer-in-Fee of Santiniketan police station in Birbhum district, additionally made allegations towards Deputy Registrar Ashok Mahato and college spokesperson Mahua Bandyopadhay, aside from the VC.

    An officer of Santiniketan police station showed receipt of the criticism as a normal diary on Tuesday night.

    “I’m scared the ongoing volley of assaults on Sen might inflict a large mishap on his lifestyles, as he’s sure to really feel anguished,” she mentioned within the letter.

    “I must have lodged the criticism previous. The humiliation of a 90-year-old guy by way of the college can’t be allowed to proceed. I name upon all alumni participants to face by way of Sir Amartya Sen,” Bhattacharya later informed newshounds.

    Visva Bharati officers may now not be contacted for feedback. The college has accused the distinguished economist of illegally occupying a work of land on its campus.

    In a recent eviction order, the central varsity requested Sen to vacate by way of Might 6 or inside 15 days of the e-newsletter of the final order on April 19, the land allegedly occupied in an unauthorised means.

    Contending that as according to executive advisories and CAG experiences, the century-old establishment was once in pressing want of having regulate of encroachments and in addition put up report back to the ministry, the attention mentioned, “Amartya Kumar Sen and all involved people are vulnerable to be evicted from the mentioned premises, if want be, by way of use of such power as is also important.”

    It’s determined that 13 decimals of land having the measurement of fifty toes x 111 toes within the north-west nook of the scheduled premises is to be recovered from him, the order mentioned.

    “Thus, he can lawfully occupy 1.25 acres of land simplest, as lesses (for the residual length of rent) within the scheduled premises. He does now not have the authority to occupy 1.38 acres of land within the scheduled premises,” the attention mentioned.

    The Nobel laureate has time and again trashed the allegations.

    Visva Bharati SFI unit office-beater Somnath Sow mentioned the scholars will do the whole lot imaginable to give protection to Sen from additional ignominy.

    KOLKATA: A former pupil of Visva Bharati has filed a criticism with police towards Vice-Chancellor Bidyut Chakraborty and two different officers, accusing them of inflicting “psychological harassment” to Nobel laureate Amartya Sen over land eviction.

    The complainant, Trisha Rani Bhattacharya, took exception to the “verbal abuse of the sort of character by way of calling him a land grabber and encroacher”, and demanded strict motion as according to felony provisions.

    Bhattacharya, in a letter to the Officer-in-Fee of Santiniketan police station in Birbhum district, additionally made allegations towards Deputy Registrar Ashok Mahato and college spokesperson Mahua Bandyopadhay, aside from the VC.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    An officer of Santiniketan police station showed receipt of the criticism as a normal diary on Tuesday night.

    “I’m scared the ongoing volley of assaults on Sen might inflict a large mishap on his lifestyles, as he’s sure to really feel anguished,” she mentioned within the letter.

    “I must have lodged the criticism previous. The humiliation of a 90-year-old guy by way of the college can’t be allowed to proceed. I name upon all alumni participants to face by way of Sir Amartya Sen,” Bhattacharya later informed newshounds.

    Visva Bharati officers may now not be contacted for feedback. The college has accused the distinguished economist of illegally occupying a work of land on its campus.

    In a recent eviction order, the central varsity requested Sen to vacate by way of Might 6 or inside 15 days of the e-newsletter of the final order on April 19, the land allegedly occupied in an unauthorised means.

    Contending that as according to executive advisories and CAG experiences, the century-old establishment was once in pressing want of having regulate of encroachments and in addition put up report back to the ministry, the attention mentioned, “Amartya Kumar Sen and all involved people are vulnerable to be evicted from the mentioned premises, if want be, by way of use of such power as is also important.”

    It’s determined that 13 decimals of land having the measurement of fifty toes x 111 toes within the north-west nook of the scheduled premises is to be recovered from him, the order mentioned.

    “Thus, he can lawfully occupy 1.25 acres of land simplest, as lesses (for the residual length of rent) within the scheduled premises. He does now not have the authority to occupy 1.38 acres of land within the scheduled premises,” the attention mentioned.

    The Nobel laureate has time and again trashed the allegations.

    Visva Bharati SFI unit office-beater Somnath Sow mentioned the scholars will do the whole lot imaginable to give protection to Sen from additional ignominy.

  • Santiniketan Agree with attracts PM Modi’s consideration to Visva Bharati VC’s ‘obnoxious’ remarks

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    KOLKATA: The Santiniketan Agree with, a charitable frame based by way of Rabindranath Tagore’s father Maharshi Debendranath Tagore, has written a letter to PM Narendra Modi asking for his intervention to restrain Visva Bharati College vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty from making “obnoxious and derogatory remarks” in opposition to old-timers at the campus and alumni.

    The letter to Modi, who’s the chancellor of Visva Bharati, reads: “We being the trustees of the mentioned Agree with can’t permit him (Chakrabarty) to make use of the platform of Upasana Griha (prayer corridor) to insult and humiliate the Ashramiks (old-timers), alumni and native electorate.

    We enchantment sooner than your authority to restrain Bidyut Chakrabarty from doing obnoxious actions and from throwing remarks in abusive language on this Upasana Griha.” The letter to Modi is claimed to be important in opposition to the backdrop of the debate wherein Visva Bharati accused Nobel laureate Amartya Sen of occupying 13 decimal of lands at his ancestral house with out authorisation which belonged to the central college.

    The state executive disregarded the school’s declare after analyzing land information. CM Mamata Banerjee met Sen at his place of dwelling and passed him over paperwork associated with the land. The letter, alternatively, didn’t point out the row between Visva Bharati and Sen. Within the letter to Modi, Anil Konar, honorary secretary of the accept as true with, mentioned he was once triggered to jot down the letter after round 200 other folks, together with old-timers, academics, scholars, artisans and investors of Santiniketan gave a mass petition expressing their anguish in opposition to the VC. 
     

    KOLKATA: The Santiniketan Agree with, a charitable frame based by way of Rabindranath Tagore’s father Maharshi Debendranath Tagore, has written a letter to PM Narendra Modi asking for his intervention to restrain Visva Bharati College vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty from making “obnoxious and derogatory remarks” in opposition to old-timers at the campus and alumni.

    The letter to Modi, who’s the chancellor of Visva Bharati, reads: “We being the trustees of the mentioned Agree with can’t permit him (Chakrabarty) to make use of the platform of Upasana Griha (prayer corridor) to insult and humiliate the Ashramiks (old-timers), alumni and native electorate.

    We enchantment sooner than your authority to restrain Bidyut Chakrabarty from doing obnoxious actions and from throwing remarks in abusive language on this Upasana Griha.” The letter to Modi is claimed to be important in opposition to the backdrop of the debate wherein Visva Bharati accused Nobel laureate Amartya Sen of occupying 13 decimal of lands at his ancestral house with out authorisation which belonged to the central college.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    The state executive disregarded the school’s declare after analyzing land information. CM Mamata Banerjee met Sen at his place of dwelling and passed him over paperwork associated with the land. The letter, alternatively, didn’t point out the row between Visva Bharati and Sen. Within the letter to Modi, Anil Konar, honorary secretary of the accept as true with, mentioned he was once triggered to jot down the letter after round 200 other folks, together with old-timers, academics, scholars, artisans and investors of Santiniketan gave a mass petition expressing their anguish in opposition to the VC. 
     

  • ‘What about Visva-Bharati?’: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee amid Aliah College row

    Through PTI

    KOLKATA: Pointing out that her govt took motion towards the previous TMCP scholar chief who heckled the vice-chancellor of state-run Aliah College, West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday sought to grasp what steps had been initiated towards the VC of Visva-Bharati, a central college.

    Giasuddin Mondal, a former chief of the TMC’s scholar wing, was once noticed in a purported video threatening and verbally abusing Aliah College VC Mohammad Ali, following which he was once arrested.

    “Police have already made an arrest within the Aliah College incident. What is going on in Visva-Bharati and Bolpur? What number of people were arrested there? Has the VC of Visva-Bharati been arrested?” she informed journalists on the state secretariat.

    “A bit (neighborhood) research in Aliah College. All are just right. There may also be discontentment a few of the scholars of Aliah College. The person who hurled abuses has been arrested via police. Right here police take motion,” she added.

    Banerjee’s feedback got here within the backdrop of ceaseless scholar protests on the Visva-Bharati in Bolpur’s Santiniketan over a bunch of problems.

    “Is there any motion taken in Visva-Bharati towards what this ‘bhadralok’ (gentleman) is doing there,” she stated, in an obvious dig.

    By the way, Visva-Bharati praised the police and stated that an identical steps will have to be taken towards the ones scholars who had gheraoed senior varsity functionaries remaining month and used abusive phrases.