True face of "Holy Than Thou CVC & CBI".

In this article we are now going to show some true facts as to how "Holy" the govt bodies CBI & CVC are. Indian public always knew about CBI, infact even the apex court has now passed judgment on their role. Here we'll take one particular issue to show all how unethically they work, with solid proofs obtained through RTIs and contacts in Coal India.

Last one year IIT Kharagpur was without any proper head, even though Director got selected. Prof P P Chakrabarti got selected but his appointment got embroiled in "Self-Created" controversy by CVC. Check these links to get more details on the issue which even lead to the launch of "PPC for Director" Movement by IIT Kharagpur alumni, faculty & students.

https://www.facebook.com/PPC.For.Director

http://purabspeaks.blogspot.in/

http://freedomofspeechcurbbyht.blogspot.in/2013/06/open-letter-and-questions-again-for-few.html

http://freedomofspeechcurbbyht.blogspot.in/2013/03/open-letter-to-cvc.html

http://storiesandinsidestories.blogspot.in/2013/07/ppc-for-director.html

Now let us show you the TRUE facts behind the whole controversy. Many a time’s people told us about CVC being corrupt. But we decided not to believe them. But now we feel differently and feel Indian public need to see "How an Innocent Prof gets Harassed by CVC". (Clicking the images would give enlarged view)

Coal Net project was collaboration between IIT Kharagpur and Coal India (CIL) to develop software for CIL. For this IIT Kharagpur took manpower help from another company TCG. Presumably, on a complaint from Coal India, CBI investigated and asked for major penalty against two professors while minor penalty against Prof P P Chakrabarti (PPC). Charges against PPC being - "Misrepresenting" IITs stand to Coal India. Let us show you the entire letter which was construed as "PPC misrepresenting" to CIL. You all can decide yourself the truth behind the charge made against him.

Doc -1 - PPCs letter to Coal India.

Going through the letter only one question comes to the mind, “What exactly is he MISREPRESENTING”? He seems to be giving all the facts truthfully, clearly and transparently that man-power help was taken from TCG. How come CBI call this misrepresentation and later same is charged by even CVC???

Is telling the truth supposed to be Fault as per CBI & CVC!!!

Now let us go through few more documents, they'll put few more holes into this whole so called "Investigation against Corruption".

Doc -2 : Prof Acharya et all application to Dean SRIC Prof Bhowmick

The application above shows Prof Acharya asking then Dean SRIC to approve man-power help from TCG. Point to be noted here: They clearly talk about "Man Power" approval and not total outsourcing of the project as being claimed by CBI, Coal India, CVC and also our dear media.

But question that arises:

1. How come Prof Acharya never got named in the CBI report???

2. How come CVC gave clearances to Prof Acharya for different administrative posts???

Now for the third document (Posted below, Doc 3) which next shows that it was NOT Prof Bhowmick who gave the approval for TCG man-power. He in turn got it from the then Director.

And crux of the matter being there's nothing wrong in getting man-power help from outside source. There has been much precedence in different IITs where manpower help was taken from other private companies. CVC conveniently finds no fault in the same!!! Now check the document below.

Doc - 3 : Prof Bhowmick's letter to the Director asking for approval.

Now coming to the MOST interesting part of this whole issue. IIT Kharagpur actually is NOT at fault for anything. See the document below!

Doc - 4 : Document relating to a meeting between IIT Kharagpur and Coal India

This document shows a meeting being arranged between Coal India and IIT Kharagpur by Prof R N Bannerjee. Do look through the names who were CCed in the letter. The named marked by a tick, #6, Mr S K De, he is from TCG. 

The letter is dated 25th June 2001, clearly proved one fact - Coal India was very much AWARE OF TCG BEING PART OF THIS PROJECT!!!

In that case how come Coal India complains about the issue???

But more importantly, How come CBI & CVC suddenly find all fault with IIT Kharagpur and not CIL?? Isn't making false charges a penalty in itself? 

So what kind of investigation was this??? The main people involved here, like Prof Acharya, never got implicated but the one person, who had NOTHING to do with the project, gets implicated and face the harshest of all punishment. Was this done in error or deliberately??

And now coming to the covering letter of the CBI report.

Doc - 5 : CBI report covering letter.

Check #3 point made by them. They clearly say THIS REPORT WON'T BE CITED AND RELIED UPON DOCUMENT IN ANY Departmental inquiries!!! Wow!! And CVC made sure to make one of the biggest "false issues" against an innocent man relying upon such an investigating document. That's how Vigilance Department works in Our Dear Country India!!!

Here's more info that happened these past few months, which raises lot of questions if the issue was created deliberately. We'll put them all point-wise and leave you all to come to your conclusions.

Each event with regards to CVC is being presented chronologically below:

1. July 2012 PPC got selected as Director IIT Kharagpur. CVC refuses to give clearance and asks for investigation. IIT Kharagpur and many top officials from MHRD tried hard to tell CVC that this is an urgent matter and need to be resolved soon. Instead of working on Director Clearance issue, the investigating Vigilance officer sent in all SIX letters to IIT Kharagpur. None of them discussed anything about the Director Clearance issue. Each of them was related to Prof Rajeev Kumar and what does IIT plan to do about his case of suspension. (Click here to know more about Rajeev Kumar). We have them all with us now as proof.
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2. Govt rule says within three months period, investigating officer if don't sent in any report, the clearance is to be taken automatically. CVC made sure to send a small inquiry just before this three month tenure ended. But at the end of the next three months’ nothing was done. One top officer from MHRD was on way to see how this can be resolved. This happened on 25th Feb, 2013. On 27th Feb, 2013 suddenly media reports that CVC has informed IIT Kharagpur its inability to give PPC clearance and that he deserves to be penalised. Interestingly, when media asked IIT Kharagpur, they had no knowledge as they never received any such letter from CVC!!! First week of March around 2-3 March this letter reached IIT Kharagpur which was Dated 19th Feb, 2013. We leave it upon readers to come to conclusion if this letter was back dated or in fact actually written on 19th. And if latter being the case, question then arises how come it took so many days to reach its destination when all other letters from Vigilance seem to be reaching IIT Kharagpur within a span of 2-3 days?? Also, how come selective media person got to know about this letter so early??
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3. Prof Chakraborty was asked to reply to questions prepared by the investigating officer after the March letter and he submitted his defense by March end. Though readers must know that he had already replied to the same questions earlier four years back and the same defense was again presented. BOG after going through his replies cleared him and the resolution with PPC’s defense was sent to Vigilance & MHRD. Vigilance sat upon it for days. 30th April, 2013 IIT Kharagpur decides to revoke Prof Rajeev Kumar's suspension order subjected to disciplinary action after next BOG meeting. And very next day Vigilance officer investigating the issue gives a clearance to Prof Chakraborty. Is that a sweet co-incidence or was there some sort of deal made, we leave it upon readers to decide!!
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4. But Prof Chakraborty's ordeal does not end here. The next senior Vigilance officer sat upon the file for more than three months. CVC by doing this broke their service rule. It was only after alumni, faculty and students started a nationwide protest, added to it was an ultimatum from MHRD, and they decided to give him the clearance. Can any CVC officer explain what action was taken against this particular Vigilance officer who broke the rule? CVC seem to be on toe when it comes to taking action against others, how about cleaning your own home!! And what is important for all to know here is the fact that “This particular Vigilance Officer (even the earlier one investigating the case) has close contacts with Prof Rajeev Kumar, and even with few office bearers of Aam Aadmi Party who are friends of Rajeev Kumar.”
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Now that events are explained, we have few questions for CVC with regards to Harassment of an innocent academician. 

1. The first question being, queries were made four years back to Prof Chakrabarti by BOG to which he gave defense and was cleared.  He gave the same defense again to CVC for the same queries. CVC had with them previous inquiry documents. How come for the same answers they first refuse clearance and later for the same explanations, CVC feels he is innocent and clears him of all charges??? Isn't that IRONICAL & ATROCIOUS!!!

2. CVC seems to depend upon a report by CBI which they themselves have asked NOT TO BE RELIED UPON!!! (Doc - 5) Isn't that height of ridiculous action on part of CVC??? Or was it a deliberate vindictive action?

3. How come CVC don’t find anything wrong in giving clearance to IIT Kanpur Dy Registrar Mr C P Singh when criminal case is still pending in Supreme Court against him? (Case No 2828/2011)

4. How come Vigilance keeps quiet about appointments at IIT Madras, especially K Panchalan as registrar even though they did not meet the eligibility criteria?? When it came to Dr Ghoshal of IIT Kharagpur, CVC feels he does not have the required 55% in his PG so he should be removed from the position. But same was with K Panchalan and his appointment was fine with CVC when the then IIT Director of Madras explained - "He does not have the required 55% in PG but had done PhD so the requirement do not count anymore once you get a higher degree".

5. How does CVC explain giving clearance to IIT Patna Director who was named for major penalty in the same CIL case and in case of Prof Chakraborty who had minor penalty (though all documents showed he was clean), his clearance was kept under wrap for full one year.

6. When they did such an in-depth investigation, how come they never saw Prof Damodar Acharya to be part of the main team working in the project, who even received financial benefits? They conveniently gave him clearance for becoming the member of RBI governor, HOW?? By the way, there's also a CBI case pending against Prof Acharya with regards to running a fake institute inside IIT Campus, CVC doesn’t find that to be of any importance to investigate. Prof Rajeev Kumar has said openly in many forums’ of carrying a personal grudge against Prof PPC, does that have any bearing over the entire ordeal that Prof PPC faced with CVC, more as the officers who handled the file, both are Prof Rajeev Kumar’s friend? We leave it upon our readers to decide!!!

CONCLUSIONS:

It is evident clearly that CVC has different parameters for penalty with regards to investigating cases. In a same case one with major penalty can get clearance easily, one who is involved throughout the issue NEVER gets named/charged yet THE one person who is innocent, face the wrath and ordeal. Prof PPC faced the most unfair ordeal. And why, cause he told the truth, that's the biggest irony of the whole case. Prof Acharya who was working full time with the project, even got financial benefits, never got charged. He enjoyed every administrative position, let alone faces any penalty.

And when we go through few other issues with regards to CVC against IIT Kharagpur (they all are complaints made by Rajeev Kumar to CVC), we find similar cases happening at other IITs and Govt institutions but CVC found it comfortable to ignore those. Best example being the case of IIT Kharagpur Registrar case. Why is CVC targeting IIT Kharagpur in particular?

Moreover, CVC is the worse ones when it comes to replying to RTIs. Either they never reply or if occasionally they do so, they come up with some reason why they are unable to give us the document. RTIs made by us asking for data on few particular clearance issues given in the past by them were replied with a message that they don’t keep record for the same. If this is not an Atrocious reply what would be no idea!!!

BTW each and every alumnus who got such replies or false info can now complain against CVC to CIC asking for action.

Matter of worry is the manner in which a constitutional body is running. Being independent and without any control, they can cause lot of harm if they want to as was done in the case of Prof PPC. We feel Prof PPC/IIT admins should slap a case/PIL against CVC for causing immense harassment, for being unfair and cause damage to his reputation and even of IIT Kharagpur.

People like Kejriwal and his party members are always singing serenades of how great constitutional bodies can be. CVC and this particular case is a blatant example of how even such bodies can be run with malicious intentions. (Interesting to note, we found that too many Aam Aadmi Party members are hand in glove with these vigilance officers and Rajeev Kumar). Mr Kejriwal, do catch up with Ashok Khemka and get more details about Prof Chakrabarti, you'll get to know the truth behind this particular case, about THE Man everyone refer to as PPC and also Rajeev Kumar. Stop talking big about fight against corruption when your own party office bearers indulge into such corrupt practice and be part of harassing an innocent man.

Today we get to see likes of Durga Shakti and Ashok Khemka in bureaucracy facing flak for being honest. Any intelligent person would know its people in bureaucracy itself who are also behind what they face; politicians cannot do anything on their own unless babus agree to follow. Not that our bureaucracy do not have honest officers. But when you see ones in depts like CVC behaving thus, it’s worrying! It is a clear indication that number of honest officers is decreasing and the day dishonest ones grow more in number than the honest ones, whole system would collapse!!! Even Lok Pal cannot help in such a scenario; can it be ensured that even that body would have all the honest ones??? Where to find them, already honest ones seem to be a rare species.

Signing off, hoping, that this immoral system of our country changes for the better soon. Else many more honest men would face unfair treatment just as Prof P P Chakrabarti faced.

Cheers!!!!

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Holy than Thou FAKE WHISTLE BLOWERS.

Repeatedly in this blog and else where people have shown Prof Rajeev Kumar, the self styled whistle blower, trying to grab the lime light through false information. This post is going to summarise them all point-wise and show how in the garb of being Whistle Blower many dupe public while acting holy than thou!

CASE - 1

Prof Rajeev Kumar lied to media, CVC that his IPR was grabbed. 

What he never told anyone is that this was an act that was done by him. Check this LINK and see proofs posted by us showing how he played fraud and grabbed credit unethically.

http://eklavyajee006.blogspot.in/2013/04/prof-rajeev-kumar-whistle-blower.html\

CASE - 2 

To play the role of whistle blower he used media to pass false information about laptop buying in IIT Kharagpur. 

This was also made as a complaint to CVC. Check this LINK and see all the proofs that shows how he has been lying. Infact he was buying a laptop for his son which was caught by the administrations and he decided to make a story out of the same to show how he was victimised. All these documents are available online and was also circulated among many.

http://eklavyajee006.blogspot.in/2013/04/pricy-laptop-pushing-by-iit-kharagpur.html

More detailed info can be read here.

http://storiesandinsidestories.blogspot.in/2011/03/eklavya-jee-inside-story.html

CASE - 3

He lies again about Rampant Cheating at IIT Kharagpur for which during inquiry and investigation, he had no answer as defense. Click here LINK

http://eklavyajee006.blogspot.in/2013/04/rampant-cheating-at-iit-kharagpur-true.html

You can get a much more detailed explanation on this subject here:

http://storiesandinsidestories.blogspot.in/2011/03/story-of-rampant-copying.html

CASE - 4 

Prof Rajeev Kumar himself indulge in Threats! And when he gets caught and inquired upon, he goes on to lie to the investigating officer. Proofs for the same presented here LINK.

http://eklavyajee006.blogspot.in/2013/04/threats-followed-by-lies-by-rajeev.html

CASE - 5

Prof Rajeev Kumar has a habit of slandering others in the most demeaning manner. 

He does it on his blog and also through emails. Check this article (LINK) to see what level of slandering this professor can do on his own blog.

But what makes things look worse is the fact that he does the same using emails. Here is one example where he slanders two senior professor while trying to influence selection process of IIT Rooki Director. Here's the proof.

http://eklavyajee006.blogspot.in/2013/04/rajeev-kumar-and-his-habit-of.html

He again tried doing the same during the selection process of IIT Kharagpur Director. 

When final push for PPC for Director movement was given with faculty even going ahead for hunger strike, he silently sends a mail to MHRD giving them some "Unsolicited" advises. Any intelligent person can see through his mail to guess what exactly he is trying to tell. Here's the email for all to see.

 From: Rajeev Kumar <*******@gmail.com>
To: "****************" <*******@yahoo.co.***>
Sent: Friday,19 July 2013, 9:09
Subject: with regards

Unsolicited advice for your kind consideration ....

1. The current protest "Prof. P.P. Chakrabarti for Director" is by Mr. Arjun Malhotra, HCL Co-founder, who has been running the Inst. with active support of Prof. Chakrabarti for the past decade for benefiting HCL.

All those, who are vouching for "PPC for Director" are those, who have been involved and/or hugely benefited in various Conflicts of Interest / Irregularities. There are around 100 faculty members associated with the protest, who were on leave on 17/07/13.

2. I understand Prof. I. Manna was also in the panel for Director, IIT Kharagpur. Prof. Manna is not in any of the controversy. It would be in the best interest, if Prof. Manna is appointed the Director, IIT KGP. There may be new selection-proc for Director, IIT Kanpur.

Thanks and Regards

--Rajeev

CASE - 6

And here's one more lie told by Rajeev Kumar for all to see. We have more documents against him and with time we'll be publishing them all, solid proofs showing how Real Whislte Blower this professor is. The whole explanation is posted on this site (LINK) but let us do so again here for all.

He claims to media and CVC how he was provided Tampered Data by IIT Kharagpur JEE cell when he tried to investigate JEE anomaly. But fact being, IIT Kharagpur JEE cell provided him not just the data but also provided him facility to cross check the same. Which he did do so and even signed before leaving saying all data provided to him was fine. Here is the document signed by him which puts holes into all his claims.

So now everything is front of the public. These are not all, we have more proofs showing how he lied repeatedly while trying to project himself as a whistle blower. Seems he did try starting the journey on a good note but on his way he lost ethics and in his effort of being in the media lime light, he started acting as a whistle blower out of non existent issues. 

Indian public while reading media reports need to be more prudent. The news could always be from a "Fake Whistle Blower" who is trying hard just to be in the lime light. This man did the same and still carrying on doing so, with full support from none other than Aam Aadmi party member Prashant Bhushan. Read this post (LINK) on media and you'll get to know how Prof Rajeev Kumar used media to in his false claims especially through few of his close friends in media.

Can CVC or any other such investigating agency take action on such blatant false information being publicised by such false whistle blowers?? But then how can they, our next post shows how even they are themselves hand in glove with such unethical & corrupt people like Rajeev Kumar. (LINK HERE)

Cheers all!!!

For slandering, Prof Rajeev Kumar can be dragged to court and sued.

Has anyone ever thought about how Prof Rajeev Kumar can easily be dragged to court on defamation suit!!! He has been continuously slandering people on his blog eklavyajee60.blogspot.com.

Till date whole world knew he is the owner but proofs were not there to directly link him. Let me now show you all something. Check this link. (LINK). He has posted mail exchanges he HIMSELF did with many. And at the end he has even posted the personal mails to IIT authorities where he is pleading with them to let his son get admitted to IIT Kharagpur. Mr Kumar, RTI is always there to get hold of all those letters especially ones sent to Prof Dube and Prof Patra. But I need not even post those, any intelligent person would know except for you none would show them publicly. (Just a short note Prof Kumar, don't even try to delete those as backup of that whole page is already with us).

Now to show all how he is slandering on his blog repeatedly. They all fall under defamation case. He makes sure to paste only those articles which are to his favour or which is in any way demeaning one of the education institution. But fine, those are then by media, but what about posts made by HIM???? We already showed you all his mail on Prof S K Dube. (LINK)

Each case presented with screen shots, click on the images to enlarge.

Case - 1

Look at the second para. The student was sexually assaulted by the Prof. After inquiry he was found guilty and hence suspended. Mr Kumar, hope you realise what demeaning statement you have written here as far as the girl is concerned!!!!!!!! Today our nation is going through worse crisis when it comes to women and what better can we expect when educated people carry such thinking. And why shouldn't the Registrar lodge the complaint. The student lodged complaint against the Prof to IIT administration, and IIT asked the Registrar in turn to lodge FIR. Why try finding some hidden agenda here and slander the name of a Woem student???? Its too shameful. Prof Kumar, another dear friend of yours, the homeopathy doctor Dr Sharma also has been made to take forced retirement for the similar reasons. Too many women of the institute had complained against him. Pray you don't come up with another derogatory story to save his skin too.

This girl and even IIT Kharagpur can sue Prof Kumar for this particular comment of his.

Case - 2

A judicial probe was ordered by IIT Kharagpur to come to conclusion if Prof Rajeev Kumar really was guilty. Retired judge Justice Ronojit Kumar Mitra was appointed to do the inquiry. And this is the respect he has for a "Judicial Probe". How did he come to the conclusion that Justice Mitra would be biased??? This is one of the most horrible remark that he could have passed. Its nothing less than slandering the character of a judge by calling him cheat!!

Case - 3

He talks about HIS IPR getting grabbed or stolen. Can he give ONE SINGLE PROOF of the same???? But yes we do have proof showing he himself indulged in IPR Grabbing. Check this Link, we talk with proofs. (LINK)

And coming to the point 14. Fine there could be conflict of interest with BOG and Rajeev Kumar. But to say "board is solely aimed for shield the corrupt and shoot the messenger" is going bit too too far. IIT Kharagpur and BOG has a case here to drag Prof Kumar for defamation.

Case - 4

Again he does it!!!! We already showed on this blog how the complete laptop issue was a farce. (LINK-1) (LINK-2).

But what is interesting here is the charges he is leveling on others. Especially the last one of Prof A K Majumdar. His wife has been working on a project and was getting just what any project staff salary is selected. To say he was "siphoning off million" for her, thats more ridiculous as the concerned project itself was of hardly few lakhs. Again IIT Kharagpur has a defamation case in hand against Rajeev Kumar and so does the people named here.

Case - 5

We won't even go into all that CVC and CBI and Coalnet issue as its under investigation. And in couple of days time report is also expected. But lets touch upon the IPR part. The project was NOT of Prof Chakrabarti's personal one. He was representing IIT Kharagpur. Hence its logical that the institute would be fight the case. This case is being fought not just for the sake of fighting but being fought for national pride. IIT Kharagpur students and faculties created a software which another US company wants to take credit, hence the case. Moreover Prof Kumar, when you were writing this, Indian court already gave verdict in favour of IIT Kharagpur. Mind you THE COURT GAVE THE VERDICT IN FAVOUR OF IIT KHARAGPUR AND NOT ONE INDIVIDUAL. Your stand actually goes complete against nationalism Prof Kumar!!! Already US and other West countries have taken patent to many of our own things, atleast stand by foor national pride sake!!!!

Case - 6

This is one of the worse slandering that Prof Kumar could have done. Mr Shiv Nadar has been awarded the Padma Bhushan for his contribution to nation's IT industry. He is the pride of the nation even on international level. Not just IIT Kharagpur, even Madras Univ honoured him with DSc degree. They all were fools to give him so much honour, right Mr Kumar??? To call such a respected man "Vendor" is slanderous!!! Have you even gone through shivnadarfoundation trust works? Have you seen how much work this trust is doing for education in India, and mind you its a non profit organisation. And dragging Mr Muthuraman and Arjun Malhotra is ridiculous. In your view they too don't deserve Hon DSc degree. I hope you are aware of the fact that Mr Malhotra is an IIT Kharagpur BTech and has invested in creating the IT dept. He is among those many, who IIT Kharagpur is proud of.

Mr Nadar and even Mr Malhotra and others can sue this Prof for slandering them publicly.


And then he says he is being slandered by all at IIT Kharagpur!!!!!

Cheers!!!!!

Holy Than Thou Media & its other dark side!!!

Justice Katju had once commented upon the need for media to stop sensationalizing news and stick to the truth. He wanted media to be made accountable, and when we go through that happened last few years in media against IIT Kharagpur, even we feel that he is too correct. Today media has reached a point where they believe more in ‘trial by media & pronounced guilty’. They don’t believe in letting public to perceive and report only the facts. As for reporting false news, there’s nothing you can do except for filing defamation suits and keeping in view our great legal system, even god would have no answer to when the ‘victim of media’ would get the justice.

Let us show you how a systemic campaign to malign the reputation of IIT Kharagpur and few people from this institute, was carried on by media. There were few elements from this very institute who worked in tandem with the media, we’ll show all that and leave it upon you to come to your conclusion. We’ll gather & explain all information collected to show the nexus between few media personals and a sole person from IIT Kharagpur out on a vendetta.

Case 1:

Pricy laptop case reporting by media

Here is the links to the articles & their counter replies by us.

http://eklavyajee060.blogspot.in/2013/04/pricy-laptop-pushing-by-iit-kharagpur.html

http://eklavyajee060.blogspot.in/2013/04/pricy-laptop-iit-kharagpur-proof-by-ht.html

1^st article we showed all documents of transaction between Rajeev Kumar & the IIT administration. 2^ndarticle shows documents provided by HT were not complete. They tried to put out partial information suppressing portions that are inconvenient to their own news. And in the second article we showed and proved this whole set of documents were provided by none other than Prof Kumar himself.

Case 2:

Rampant Cheating Case

The article links and counters to the same have been posted here.

http://eklavyajee060.blogspot.in/2013/04/rampant-cheating-at-iit-kharagpur-true.html

http://storiesandinsidestories.blogspot.in/2011/03/story-of-rampant-copying.html

Again we find reporters going ahead with posting news which they got from a source without even trying to do any research. They get inputs from someone and decide to go on a trail and declare the institute guilty. Completely false information like claiming that IIT Kharagpur allows student to choose any seat during examination is put out. Question arises who gave them all these information? The whole charge seems to be coming from Proof Rajeev Kumar so logical deduction is he being the informer. Yes he denied the same but then the next logical question that comes is ‘why didn’t he then do anything to stop these reporters’.

Case 3:

IIT Kharagpur and so called “Tech theft” by our media.

Again a campaign to malign the names of few individual from IIT Kharagpur and the institute itself was taken up by media. Check these links and then let me show how cleverly the game was played by them.

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-06-28/india/29711978_1_iit-kgp-t-k-ghosal-iit-kharagpur

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/news/software-services/IIT-Kharagpur-in-US-tech-theft-mess/articleshow/9027560.cms

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/services/education/iit-kharagpur-in-trouble-over-us-tech-transfer-case/articleshow/9021814.cms

Detailed rebuttal on these articles can be check here.

http://purabspeaks.blogspot.in/2011/07/iit-kharagpur-in-trouble-over-us-tech.html

But let me show you something interesting that’ll give even a layman some idea of foul play being done.

Check the 1^st two articles. Both are by THE same portal. The author changes the Title of the article, removes his name in the 2^ndand goes along with just TNN and POSTS SAME ARTICLE TWICE, ON THE SAME DAY WITH A LITTLE GAP IN TIMINGS. Why was this done? What was the need for the same portal to post same article twice? Economics time is also of the same group but we give them the benefit of doubt as it’s a different wing altogether.

What general public had no knowledge about was the fact that these articles were pushed so hard by the reporters just at a time when the final hearing of the same case was coming up at Calcutta High Court. Were there any malicious intentions behind this act by the reporter?

And what the reporter next makes sure not to write about is the judgment of the case. Check the link below.

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-07-06/kolkata/29742904_1_iit-kgp-iit-team-farhang

The court clearly bars the software company use of the software. Akshaya Mukul, who takes lot of pain to report a lot about IIT Kharagpur (search through his profile at times site) does not even bother to report this news do bring questions as to his intentions. Questions arises more when you see the list of his articles, they all have been ALWAYS anti IIT Kharagpur.

Though we can never connect this story getting published by Akshaya Mukul and Prof Kumar’s role but what do bring questions in our mind is the fact that Prof Kumar is going on maligning the institute and people connected to this case repeatedly.

Case 4:

Freedom of speech curb on all who posted in favour of IIT Kharagpur, by the media.

Isn’t it the media who is always shouting for freedom of speech? When Justice Katju mentioned about the need for laws to see that media don’t indulge in wrong doing, it was the media now up in arms against the man. Similarly when govt started deliberating on taking action against anti govt articles/spoofs/similar, it was again the media who lambasted the govt for the same.

Let us now show you all how they themselves behaved with many readers, it was nothing but a direct attack on freedom of speech of general public. The three links below would show how two specific news portal posted articles against IIT Kharagpur, and many readers made comments refuting all the charges made by the reporter. The portal after sometime deleted ALL comments. We have here proof of their act.

http://freedomofspeechcurbbyht.blogspot.in/2011/03/hindustan-times-curbs-freedom-of-speech.html

http://freedomofspeechcurbbyht.blogspot.in/2012/08/toi-deletes-all-comments-from-iit.html

http://purabspeaks.blogspot.in/2012/08/who-is-talking.html

Why was this done? With what motive? Readers can go through all the comments posted here which got deleted and decide themselves – Do they deserved to be deleted, or is it that because the comments were painting the true story which were inconvenient to their own article motive that they decided to remove those?

Case 5:

Rajeev Kumar & Media

You just need to visit the blog eklavya06 and check all articles that have been archived there related to Prof Kumar issue. You’ll get to see an interesting trend. Just as shown in case #3 above, the same material has been posted repeatedly in the media at different intervals. Too many times it has been the same few selected journalists posting the articles. Early articles were simply read through but later it was found there was an interesting trend that is being followed for the same. Whenever there was a hearing of his case (he has too many in too many courts), or hearing of the judicial inquiry at IIT Kharagpur or BOG meeting to decide his future, these selected journalists would put up an article repeating the same things, glorifying the prof while making sure to hide the facts that could be inconvenient for his case. Not that we are claiming this to be happening, we are just making our point as to what we saw happening, which caught our attention!

Case 6:

The coalnet issue

This has become the new issue for few selected journalists currently and just for all readers’ information – Most of these journalists are the same who advocate Rajeev Kumar issue repestedly whenever any hearing of his comes up. Disclaimer: Not that we are saying both the issues are interlinked. We are simply informing our readers of this “Innocent” fact.

Too many articles on the issue are flying around but first we’ll take up just one, which is telling a blatant lie. A detailed analysis of all such articles has already been given here in this blog. (http://purabspeaks.blogspot.in/2013/03/the-pioneer-connection.html)

http://archive.dailypioneer.com/home/online-channel/360-todays-newspaper/130914-cvc-asks-hrd-ministry-to-fire-3-iit-professors.html

The article starts with this line – “In a first of its kind, the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has asked the HRD Ministry to dismiss three IIT professors — including IIT-Patna Director and the Dean of the prestigious IIT-Kharagpur — from service.”

All other articles on this issue wrote that CVC recommended “minor penalty” against this Prof, the director elect. (As for CVC and its role here, we’ll take it up in our next post & show our readers how clean and unbiased they themselves are. Indian public need to know in details about such constitutional bodies and the murky games they play.) And this reporter comes up with a sensualizing title to attract the attention of readers. How far ethical journalism is he following???? Mr Deepak Kumar Jha is the recent journalist added to the previous couple who have now started maligning IIT Kharagpur. Incidentally, this journalist is also a great friend of Prof Rajiv Kumar. Isn’t that a sweet co-incidence!!!

Case 7:

Check this.

http://www.ebela.in/details/6195-31326734.html

It’s related to news that came in the regional newspaper “Ebela”. They came out with complete false news that West Bengal education dept is considering removal of current director elect of IIT Kharagpur from both, the Higher Education Panel of WB & the Deans selection Panel at Jadavpur Univ. True fact being, Govt of WB is planning no such steps. Infact the said prof has already completed his duty as panel member at Jadavpur Univ and submitted the report to the VC there. Bengali news daily “Ananda Bazaar Patrika” themselves came out with the same news.

Did we tell you, Ebela is run by the same AMP group!!! How can two dailies of the same newspaper give out such contradictory articles!!!

Conclusions and questions to ponder upon:

1. Journalists to us seem unbiased. Journalism need to be ethical. Yet we find few who indulge into “Yellow Journalism” targeting some organization or few individual.
   
   
2. To do proper research before putting out an article, especially of taking views of other side and put out balanced news is the last thing few journalists believe in doing.
   
   
3. Question arise in our mind, why do they give a blind support to some particular individual while targeting others even after being shown true facts!! Disclaimer: We don’t want to speculate and say these journalists come up with this news as they got some special benefit from that particular individual.
   
   
4. Why did they indulge in putting out articles showing just few facts while hiding some other truths especially those which could have been very inconvenient for Prof Kumar?
   
   
5. Till date why didn’t any journalist put out an article telling about the reprimand court gave to Prof Kumar?
   
   
6. A foreign company tells them few lies and without even getting the facts how can they out a story lambasting an Institute of their own country?
   
   
7. Final question and the most alarming thought for us – Is it so simple as “Yellow Journalism” against IIT Kharagpur and its few honest people or is there a much bigger story behind all this mud-slinging going on?

Cheers and have a good day till we come back with our next "Holy Than Thou" organisation - The constitutional body CVC!!

Rampant cheating at IIT Kharagpur - The true facts.

This article is to deal on mass copying charge made by again Prof Rajeev Kumar and flashed across all national daily.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Crowded-IIT-helps-cheats/Article1-633257.aspx

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-12-29/india/28223312_1_t-k-ghosal-copying-examination


A detailed rebuttal and fact on the same has been posted here. (LINK) But let us also give few facts, without getting into too much details to show why this news is intended to malign the institute and not true.

Quote from news #2:


"What makes copying easier is the fact that IIT-Kharagpur does not have any provision of allotting a seat to a student during an examination. A student is free to choose any seat allotted for the subject."

A blatant lie that is put here by the reporter. Did he even try to do any research before putting up this fact. Before examination each and every student is allocated seats and none allowed to sit on their own whim.


Till date Prof Kumar could not give any proof or explanation on this so called "rampant" copying. The true fact being if anyone goes through the senate meeting minutes, would get to see how every copying case is dealt with strictly. The reporters never tried to even cross check this fact.

Reporters had to just ask Mr Kumar about the number of cheating cases reported till date by HIM and they would have got some interesting information. Mr Kumar has been invigilating for years at IIT Kharagpur. And till date NOT A SINGLE CASE OF CHEATING HAS BEEN REPORTED BY RAJEEV KUMAR AT IIT KHARAGPUR. Yet he claims there's RAMPANT cheating in the institute!!!

When you read through the other LINK, you get to know more in details what his replies had been during interrogation by the IIT Administration. 

BTW this is for the reporters. You all got the feed from Mr Kumar and decided to go ahead with the article. Let me show you what his reaction would be if tomorrow you get confronted with the same. Let us post a section from a mail sent by Mr Kumar to investigating administers below and you'll see how he is going to wash his hands off. You'll be left with no source to claim for this news item. Whole email chain has already been produced at different investigation and hence now available to many.

From your covering letter, it appears that the news item, in Page-4, refers to the opinion of me. As during the Senate meeting on 27/12/10, I denied ever talking to the reporter, I hereby again categorically deny that I ever talked to the reporter.

In the last para of the same email, he again lies of being threatened. We have the whole chain of emails that happened in this discussion. Not once did any administrator threatened him. Infact they all have been talking to him in the most polite language simply asking queries. Maybe asking queries fall under "Threat" for Mr Kumar!! Let us show the last part now and disect the same.

I wish to state and re-iterate I have been threatened, many times in the past, by some of the top institute administrators who felt exposed due to my work, as a whistleblower. This may be one other attempt by those people who feel threatened of being exposed due to the issues of conflicts of interests, recently raised by me. Needless to say, I have been tenaciously working for strengthening and reforming systems, in particular IIT Kharagpur, by transparency and accountability.

Coming to the underlined red part of this mail, Mr Kumar states that he is working to reform all systems. Just one query that comes to our mind Mr Kumar. 

How come you never worked to find the Rampant Copying or any such anomalies at your Son's institute, Jadavpur Univ?? I am sure he must have told you about that institute and how clean the same was during that era. If you were so concerned about cleaning the system, why be so selective and target ONLY IIT Kharagpur that too with false claims. 

Signing off for today and leaving all you to ponder on few questions.

1. Cheating during examination is there in each and every examination across the world. But at IIT Kharagpur whenever they were caught, strict actions have been taken. Senate meeting minutes would show all this fact. Why didn't reporters try getting hold of the same to come to this conclusion??

2. Mr Rajeev Kumar claimed of rampant copying but how come he himself NEVER caught any single cheating cases though he has been invigilating for years now. Infact he even has been chief invigilator once yet no case was caught by him. 

Cheers all, have a good day!!!

Few Court Cases for all to read and ponder!

In this article let us show you all how Prof Rajeev Kumar hand in glove with few media personal pass out selective information to the Indian public. Read through these articles. They all say the same, that Supreme Court had called Prof Kumar as the "Unsung Hero". Do check the dates of the articles.

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-10-13/india/30274714_1_official-cutoffs-cutoff-procedure-jee-candidates

http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Top-court-calls-IIT-whistleblower-prof-an-unsung-hero/Article1-756607.aspx

Even the well known Eklavyajee blog (popular belief being its run by Prof Kumar himself), had put up the articles.

http://eklavyajee06.blogspot.in/2011/10/sc-iit-whistleblower-unsung-hero-in.html

All these pertain to the case which was disposed off by Supreme Court on 11th Oct 2011. Let me now show you all the court order which was passed by SC.

http://courtnic.nic.in/supremecourt/temp/sc%201349510p.txt

What these articles NEVER mentioned that SC dismissed the case filed by Prof Kumar on behalf of his son Mr Sanchit Bansal.

" But    there    is    no    ground    for       that    Courts    to interfere with the procedure, even if it was not accurate or efficient, in the absence of malafides or arbitrariness or violation of law. It is true that if in JEE 2006, a different or better process had been adopted, or the process now in vogue had been adopted, the results would have been different and the first appellant might have obtained a seat. But on that ground it is not possible to impute malafides or arbitrariness, or grant any relief to the first appellant. Therefore, the appellant will have to be satisfied in being one of the many unsung heroes who helped in improving the system."

Yes no second question that he did make the JEE system better and a hero for the same, but no where we find anything that suggest SC had actually HAILED him high as a Hero, as our media seem to be suggesting. Why do they have to be selective while reporting Mr Kumar's case? They never seem to even give a thought to recheck/confirm with other party when Rajeev Kumar give them any info, and go ahead with detailed false reporting. Then why not the full truth in the case of Rajeev Kumar????



Case -2 

Now here's another case that was filed by the Professor and has now been disposed off. This case if from Delhi High Court, year 2010. No media took the pain, or maybe just looked sideways, in reporting this case.

http://www.indiankanoon.org/doc/253540/

Just a small part of the judgement as passed by Hon Judge.

Page 4 of 5 - "Ordinarily, we would have saddled the petitioner with exemplary cost of more than five figures but keeping in view the fact that he is a young man and seems to be misguided in filing this type of litigation in the name of public interest, we refrain from imposing cost. At the same time, we hope and trust that the learned counsel representing the petitioner will be more discreet in future and avoid filing of such type of litigation, disposal of which has consumed substantial time of the Court which could have been utilized for deciding other cases."

So Dear Mr Kumar's media friends, it do raises lot of question on your work ethics.

For readers, do ponder and think if all that media is telling about Rajeev Kumar is true or not. Ponder if they are reporting the whole matter or is it just the partial truth being shown, draped in such a way that it projects Mr Kumar in a good light.

Have a good day,

Oh did we tell you of the fact that Prof Kumar filed cases against JEE practices against IITJEE twice. Want to know when? It was done twice, first when his son could not crack JEE and he wanted him to get it done through court (as shown in the above cases) and second time again in 2010, just when his daughter failed to get through. That do tells a lot, does it not????

Cheers!!!

Threats followed by Lies by Rajeev Kumar against IIT Kharagpur.

Threats, well its a term that has been used by Prof Rajeev Kumar too many times. After the JEE bust he did, he made some great contacts in the media and used that to pass on his own messages to public. And to get Indian public sympathy, to show them how he is getting victimised, (maybe this was done more to hide his own mistakes) he went on crying about his own safety. As to how he was being threatened by IIT administration. IIT already had too many proofs against him, so why would they even care to threaten him? They already had the power to take action against him which finally they did when it was found how with false allegations he was maligning the institute.

And what to say about the threats his media friends passed on others who differed with their views?? Check this article and see how the journalists of this article threatened few only because they were speaking out against them. Is that how journalism works? Lets leave that part aside for sometime, journos part would be taken up later. For now first check this. Respectable journalists indulging in threatening readers just because they did not agree to their views.

http://www.moneylife.in/article/irregularities-in-iit-jee-will-the-new-hrd-minister-offer-justice-to-this-tenacious-whistleblower/29436.html

Question that comes to our mind is who really can threaten him? He has a lawyer like Bhushan to support him. He has contacts in media which he can use any moment to malign someone.

Interestingly there are proofs where Prof Rajeev Kumar himself had threatened. Infact he does it many times, using cleverly crafted words in mails (we have come across a mail of his during the period of IIT Delhi Professor's interview where he is threatening one of the panel member cunningly).

Well now to come to the main point, he threatened IIT Kharagpur Dean of Postgraduate Studies to ‘rescue’ himself. When this charge was put against him, Kumar ingenuously claimed that “what he wanted to write was ‘recuse’. This ‘honest error’ of transformation of ‘recuse’ to ‘rescue’ was due to the ‘Autocorrect and auto-spell checking’ policy of MS Word!!! It is therefore not his fault and he may be kindly excused.” His admirers naturally gave in to this argument. But the proof of the pudding is in the eating thereof. An actual test for this was carried out. Please see the screen shot from MS Word.

Click image to enlarge

Well Well Well Prof Kumar, sorry to say but the alternatives do not show rescue as an option!!

So isn't it evident that what Kumar says is bogus!!

Rajeev Kumar and his habit of Slandering others!

There is a common knowledge about another blog (LINK HERE), of being run by Prof Rajeev Kumar himself. Here's a disclaimer : Though its a very common knowledge the blog Eklavya JEE is run by and owned by Rajeev Kumar, we have no proof whatsoever so won't say conclusively about the same.

Now to get back to this article.

If someone visits the blog, he can find the author has posted many articles, copy pasting them from internet medias. No harm in that. But few articles can be found where many honoured person have been defamed. For example, the scan below, its a part of one article on his blog. Click on this link to see full image.

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiugfVR92Zm2JxrW3KQPJc-VPV-QS1JSpzn_x0YXd6gDNxOWU7GzECVUhz9Ahw_HFRIEuBGm5ATO6YUxlv93BBqJFhsM0D3WrhIEAaOCdsIt7DbeOlYjThrWVJURk9DwDgpIn9VxNvZut84/s1600/Eklavya-Blog.jpg

We'll not get into any speculation if the author is Prof Rajeev Kumar or not. But we do have some proof that shows a mail of Prof Rajeev Kumar and yes, he did indulge in slandering as far as we can make out. Do read the mail below and decide for yourself if this not slandering then what is???

Email from Rajeev Kumar while Visiting IIT Kanpur to J P Gupta of JIIT trying to

influence candidature of Dube and Kripa Shankar for IIT-R. J P Gaur was the person they were
trying to influence as he was an important member of selection committee. Ask some other
members of the committee:

> ---------------------------- ----------------------------
> Subject: Re: regards . . .
> From: "Rajeev Kumar" <raj@iitk.ac.in>
> Date: Wed, May 10, 2006 6:15 pm
> To: jp.gupta@jiit.ac.in
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Sir
>
> I few salient points about Professor Sishir Kumar Dube :
>
> - He has never taught, he was a scientific officer all through-out his
> life, became Professor though a court-order. After becoming a Professor,
> he became a Dean for few years, then, Director, IIT-KGP because of
> Professor MM Joshi's blessing.
>
> - After becoming Director IIT-KGP, he always used to say that he was keen
> to be the VC, BHU which he could not get.
>
> - He has completed almost 4 y in KGP, yet his family is in Delhi, and he
> is in KGP hardly for a day or two in whole week. Mostly, he is away from
> KGP>
>
> - He has hand-picked a few (smart) people and runs whole administration
> through him. He is hardly aware of what is happening.
>
> - He tries to keep all those people who can be dangerous to him. He has
> no regard for any rule, he wishes to please/oblige. Such popular policy
> may seem good at the beginning, they are dangerous in general.
>
> For example, KGP traditionally has BOG quota where admission to kids of
> faculty/staff were given in MSc courses on preferential basis. Every year,
> 2-6 kids were getting admission based on some merit. People were happy,
> and this has been running successfully for the past 2-4 decades. He
> increased this quota to 25 (virtually every 12 pass started getting
> admission), then there was a lot of opposition from other IITs, and this
> whole quota was abolished.
>
> - He always wishes to be in Media by making announcements. He opened
> courses in Economics, LLB (IPR), and announced to have MBBS/MD.
>
> - He has learnt the following slogan:


>
> "we are number one in India, will be number uno in Asia in next 3
> years, and be number one in the world in next 5 years." He has been
> repeating this sentence since he got it from one KGP Professor.
>
> He is very quick in signing the files w/o understanding any thing. Files
> can be put by anyone, he will simply put his signature.
>
> He is well known in losing his temper in meetings, if someone wishes to
> argue. He can never argue on merit.
>
> Otherwise, people are happy with him because they get whatever they wish
> to get. At the same time, most people laugh at him.
>
> His main feature : keeps his bosses extremely happy.
>
> Kripa Shankar does not have a good reputation either. I'll find more about
> him,and send.
>
> regards
>
> -rajeev
>
>
> --
> Rajeev Kumar, Vis. Fac.
> Dept. Comp. Sci. Engg., IIT Kanpur 208016
> +91.512.259. 6074(O), 8606(H), 0725 (Fax)
> raj@iitk.ac.in rkumar@cse.iitkgp.ernet.in
> http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/raj/
> --
> On leave from CSE, IIT Kharagpur

Pricy Laptop IIT Kharagpur proof by HT sounds too hollow!

Hello readers,

Last post here (LINK) we showed you about how Hindustan Times published a false news about IIT Kharagpur while making lot of false charges against few individuals of the institute. Today we show you how Hindustan Times was manipulated by Rajeev Kumar, though onus still lies with HT for not getting in touch with IIT administration to get the true picture.

Check this article on HT where the reporter of the earlier article Mr Charusudan posted all the documents that he had with him to come to the conclusion.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Clarification-on-IIT-Kharagpur-pushing-pricey-laptops/Article1-670478.aspx

We downloaded the documents and checked. We found lot of documents being interpreted in a wrong manner while some even absent from the lot. We ask readers to download the pdf and keep it open for reference.

1. The whole set of document does NOT carry the most important document in this whole case, the Hyderabad quote document which implicates him with the fact that he wanted the laptop to be delivered to his son at Hyderabad. Also that document shows he submitted a quote to IIT Kharagpur which was valid for just ONE Day. We posted the same in our previous article (Document 4). Here's the link to the scan document. (IMAGE LINK). If this supposed to "All Document" as being said by HT, where is the above document? That do brings a question to our mind, how can we believe the above documents are complete, maybe more still might be there which could be against the professor's interest so HT is keeping it away from public eye.

2. The document set downloaded has a list - Annexure - II (Page 3). This is being shown as the "Rate Chart" by HT reporter to the public. But read the subject of the Annexure. It clearly say - EMPANELMENT OF LAPTOPS. Is the reporter aware of difference between an "Empanelment" list and "Rate Chart" list? This list with that title clearly shows is a bidding list for empanelment who gave the lowest quote. To produce it was the Rate Chart, how correct is that on the reporters part?

3. No single document shows IIT administration is asking or "Forcing" the professor to buy at higher price.

4. The professor through the reporter claims the laptop was being taken under CPDA Empanelment order. Why did he then send the purchase order to SRIC. Every IIT has SRIC structured unit and they are no way involved with CPDA purchase, they deal with only Project Purchases. If he needed laptop in that scheme, why didn't he send a CPDA requisition?

5. A purchase requisition for projects are sent to SRIC. Check the letter from SRIC to the professor in the previous article and even in this lot. (Image LINK). The Dean seem to be telling the professor clearly in no short terms that the CPDA empanelment order was NOT applicable for purchase of laptop for projects. And from his letter another message we can gather - The professor seem to be Insisting SRIC to follow the same CPDA purchase rules while buying laptop for projects.

6. As yet the reporter has not shown any proof that the professor followed the basic purchase procedure which is followed in every govt purchase. There is no document showing he made more than 2 quotes, which is the normal procedure, and he could have been easily sanctioned the lowest quote laptop. Why did he go on insisting his single quote be sanctioned even after repeated request from all concerned parties in the administration? 

7. And the most funny part of this whole document set supposed to be a proof against IIT Kharagpur administration. In his conclusion part he substantiates his finding while comparing two laptops, both of different models - Dell M4500 and Dell XPS. The first thing any journalist would have done here was to cross check with dell about the two models to know the facts about their rates. All are aware of the fact that Dell M4500 is a much superior model than Dell XPS. To let the readers know about a fact - Dell was contacted by IIT Kharagpur and they clarified about the same while defending the different rates of the two model.

When you go through all these pointers, its now upon you get your take on this whole episode. Was the reporter doing this deliberately? What gain does the reporter has to malign IIT Kharagpur reputation? Or is he trying to do so at the behest of the professor (for reasons unknown)? Or is it that he really had less knowledge about the technical facts and got duped by the professor? 

After going through all the above facts we come to a simple conclusion - the Pricy Laptop Issue to malign IIT Kharagpur, as projected by the journalist and Professor Rajeev Kumar, is a false bogus issue.

Now to come to the most interesting part of this whole maligning campaign. After downloading the document from the HT site, we did a checking on its properties. Viola! Do see who the Author of the said document is in the scan image below (Click on the image to see enlarged).

We leave it now upon readers to decide on a simple question - Don't you feel that Prof Rajeev Kumar is in fact deeply involved in acts of maligning the reputation of this institute!!! 

Signing off for today with the screen shot with the hope - Truth would surely prevail. Cheers!!

Pricy laptop pushing by IIT Kharagpur true story!

We now come to another anomaly reported by the media against IIT Kharagpur and few of its administrators. This generated lot of ruckus in IIT kharagpur circle.

The news article - http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/IIT-Kharagpur-pushing-pricey-laptops/Article1-659087.aspx

Let me now show the other side of the same with documented proofs. (Each documents provided can be clicked to get more clear enlarged view)

The article states "The correspondence shows the IIT administration had asked senior computer science professor Rajeev Kumar to either purchase the laptop under the institute rates, or not purchase it at all. “We are only insisting that institute-determined rates are followed in the purchase. The institute rates are official, those obtained by individual faculty members are not,” an  administrator said."

Let me show the document from the administration and show what EXACTLY administration told Prof Rajeev Kumar.

Document -1 :This is the first communication with Rajeev Kumar  on his request for the laptop.

Now to come with the next communication with Rajeev Kumar on 22 Dec 2010

Document -2

In the scan document above read the line underlined red. Isn't the administration telling the PI (Rajeev Kumar in this case) clearly that there is NO "Rate Contract".

Now lets read through the blue underlined part. Aren't we all aware of this basic rule in govt procurement that single quotations are not valid. You need to give more than one quotation, the numbers depend upon as per that particular organisation rules, and the lowest one is sanctioned. IIT administration seems to have clearly pointed out this discrepancy to the PI and asked him to submit documents as per IIT norms, which incidentally is followed by any govt organisation.

Now for the final document which was sent to the PI cancelling his laptop order.

Document - 3

Again when we see the document, its clear that the PI is told about "No available rate Contract" for purchase of laptop (Red underlined part). Infact the administrator asked him to follow all purchase rules as per IIT Kharagpur. The rules states that he need to submit more than one quotation and not single. If he felt his requisition carried the lowest quotation for the specific laptop, what stopped him from providing other quotations? Rule states any purchase requisition made should need to be recommended by the Purchase Committee Chairman. Check document -2 (Green Underlined part) and you'll get the PI was requested to get this passed by the Purchase Committee Chairman. Yet he ignores the request. The most conclusive deduction that can be formed from this, the PI himself wants IIT Kharagpur to flout purchase rules in his particular case.

Few more documents released by IIT Kharagpur in a complaint to the HT Editor and also its own faculty show more discrepancies with this order. Below is the Del Quotation that Rajeev Kumar obtained and submitted to IIT Kharagpur while submitting his requisition for the laptop.

Document - 4 :The DELL Quotation for the laptop as submitted by Rajeev Kumar to IIT Kharagpur

The two portion that brought attention to IIT Kharagpur administration have been marked by red and blue circles.

Check the red circled part. Which govt office allows purchase of things at the organisation while shipping made at another destination, in another town, completely out of the organisation administrative area. You place an order at Kharagpur IIT and ask IIT to deliver the product at Hyderabad, is that according to rules of any govt purchase norms?

Now coming to the blue circle. Order valid for - 1 days. Have you ever seen a purchase quotation being submitted where the validity period of the quotations given is for just 1 day? No purchase committee would pass such a requisition for the very fact that even if all paper work gets completed in one day and order placed next, the rates may vary.

It is now upon the readers to come to conclusion as to what really is happening. 

1. Is it that the PI here is forcing IIT Kharagpur to NOT follow rules in his case? If yes then why, cause he is a whistleblower and should be given this exclusive treatment? 
2. Or is it a meticulously planned issue where the PI is making sure to get the order cancelled so as to take up the issue in the media and tarnish the Institutes image? 
3. Or maybe it is a murky plan where some/one specific individual from the IIT administration is targeted to tarnish his/her image and reputation? 

I leave the conclusion for the readers to come out with.

By the way, IIT Kharagpur administration did stumble upon a very interesting point during the process of investigation. The requisition made by Rajeev Kumar with DELL quotations (Document - 4) had a phone number where this laptop is to be delivered. The number 8008299686, official inquiries were made as to who this belongs to. The phone number belongs to Mr Sanchit Bansal, Microsoft India Pvt Ltd. We are given to understand that Prof Rajeev Kumar's son's name is Mr Sanchit Bansal. And during the period when this requisition was made, Mr Sanchit Bansal, son of Prof Rajeev Kumar was employed at Microsoft India Pvt Ltd and placed at Microsoft Campus, Hyderabad.

Phone Bill copy of the phone number 8008299686

Interesting must say!!!

Cheers and have a good day.