Kerala University ran 9 depts without any sanctioned faculty posts: CAG report

The audit report stated, "nine academic departments were functioning without even one sanctioned professor post, seven without any sanctioned post of associate professor and assistant professors for two departments."

Kerala University ran 9 depts without any sanctioned faculty posts: CAG report

The audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has revealed the University of Kerala (KU), Thiruvananthapuram’s department of nanoscience and nanotechnology ran without any sanctioned faculty posts and relying entirely on contract lecturers since its inception in 2016 until 2021. 

The audit report stated, "nine academic departments were functioning without even one sanctioned professor post, seven without any sanctioned post of associate professor and assistant professors for two departments." A performance audit from the 2016-21 by the CAG found numerous violations of the University Grants Commission (UGC) norms on structures of councils,teacher recruitment and pay, funding, and syllabus revision. Kerala University also failed to implement infrastructure projects on time.

CAG's report which has to be submitted to the Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan, who is also the Chancellor of the University. CAG report has been prepared on the Functioning of the University of Kerala and it involves scrutiny of the university’s records and physical verification.

The report further stated that five major infrastructure works worth INR 9.70 crore which was initiated during 2011-17 is still incomplete. As per the CAG report, "the university’s failure to utilise infrastructure funds resulted in it receiving only INR 8.70 crore of the UGC allocation of INR 15.76 crore as general development assistance (GDA) between 2012 and 2017. The development of infrastructure was needed as the CAG found that large numbers of colleges lacked rooms, toilets, seminar halls, library books and accessibility features such as ramps and lifts. The two University Health Centres were either non-functional or poorly-resourced."

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