Thiruvananthapuram: Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has reported widespread irregularities in the operation of Kerala Agriculture University (KAU).
The university collapsed on many critical fronts such as professors and management, said a study on the varsity tabled by CAG at the House on Thursday.
KAU failed to appoint’officials of the college’ at the prescribed way.
Teaching employees were nominated to those posts with complete additional cost.
These structures contributed considerably to KAU’s non-compliance with different University Grants Commission (UGC) regulations regulating it and important recommendations of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), ” the report stated.
The analysis pointed out the data supplied by KAU into the National Agricultural Education Accreditation Board (NAEAB), the certification service for agricultural colleges, throughout the certification procedure had qualitative inaccuracies.
“It created that the new College of Agriculture at Ambalavayal, Wayanad, with no minimal standards prescribed by ICAR.
The university’s incorporated Master’s Degree Programme in Climate Change Adaptation instituted in 2010 has been run with no permanent school since the beginning of the programme because it hadn’t framed vaccinations for recruitment them,” stated the report.
The university didn’t comply with all the applicable UGC regulations concerning the award of PhD levels and recruiting of both contract and regular teaching personnel.
“The study product of this university, concerning number and caliber of research papers published in scientific studies from its own school, were under the prescribed grade and this negatively affected its standing by ICAR.
Within a third of its own faculty members hadn’t authored or co authored any research papers throughout the span 2014 to 2018,” it stated.
The popularization of new kinds of plants developed by the college was negatively impacted as a result of non-initiation of steps to find these sorts informed under the Seeds Act, 1966.
KAU hadn’t taken steps to protect new kinds of plants produced by it under the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Act, 2001, stated the report.