Teaching departments, hostels at Calicut varsity campus indefinitely shut
According to sources, all the residents of men’s hostels have been asked to vacate their rooms. Separate accommodation could be provided to students from Lakshadweep.
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calicut, P. Raveendran, has ordered a probe into allegations of financial irregularities, fund misuse, and procedural lapses associated with an automated answer-script storage project initiated in 2021. The Finance Officer will conduct a thorough investigation, with assistance from Instrumentation Engineer T. Sajid and Section Officer K. Suresh Kumar.
The project, aimed at securely storing and swiftly retrieving evaluated answer scripts, has faced complaints since its inception. P. Rasheed Ahmed, then a Syndicate member, filed a petition in the Kerala High Court against the then Vice-Chancellor M.K. Jayaraj, alleging irregularities in the project's implementation and associated financial transactions.
The complaint, submitted by C.P. Muhammed Jaseel on September 28, 2026, highlighted that the project's total cost had surpassed ₹25 crore, despite initial expenditures of over ₹10 crore not leading to full operationalization. The complainant also claimed that the funds for the project were sanctioned by overriding the Finance Officer's objections.
Jaseel further alleged that the system failed to meet expected efficiency in examination conduct and result declaration, and that manual processes were still necessary for handling answer scripts. The investigation will examine tender procedures, technical committee recommendations, contracts, expenditures, financial transactions, completion certificates, equipment installation, and the system's operational performance.
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