over-2-000-fake-faculty-members-face-ban-by-anna-university

Anna University is mulling over banning more than 2,000 faculty members from engineering colleges for one to ten years for faking their details and working in multiple colleges.

Additionally, the university is likely to withhold affiliation of more than 30 engineering colleges and is planning to act against the principals.

"Anna University syndicate discussed awarding punishment to the faculty members and engineering colleges involved in faking the faculty members' details," a source said.

Engineering colleges should employ faculty members in a 1:20 ratio, as per AICTE norms. 

 

The college reduced the cost in most of the colleges that are somewhere, did fake faculty recruitments-these were discovered by (Arappor Iyakkam) a non-governmental organisation fighting corruption found over 53 such individuals in the year 2023-24 working with multiple colleges.

 

The engineering colleges had faculty members who claimed to be working in multiple colleges. The faculty and colleges used fake Aadhaar numbers to get the benefit of working with multiple engineering colleges.

An internal investigation found that a fake faculty member was employed in 2,000 faculty positions in the university as of 2024-25. A faculty member was working in thirty-two colleges of engineering. More than 290 engineering colleges were issued notices by the university, together with more than 2000 faculty members.

Less than 25 per cent of the faculty members appeared before the CBI in the matter, and the university proposed strict penalties to the faculty. But the syndicate referred this issue to a three-member body.

Jayaram Venkatesan recalled the action against colleges and faculty members against paucity. "There has been no action for the last six months. It will be quite clear that whenever there is severe punishment, there will be discontinued malpractices. Accountability should also be fixed against the inspection teams of Anna University. They can ask for proof such as pay slip since they can verify if the faculty member is in the payrolls of the institution," he said.