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Prof Jagdesh Kumar was a wrong choice for the Vice-Chancellor or head of any institution which required dealing with those that needed to be dealt more with Personal than Positional power.
I got to read of his having been made Wardon of one of the hostels of IIT Delhi, it happened much before his appointment as the VC.
And in a matter of a few days, the students of the hostel began to protest because of his interference in the menu or the day the students live in the hostel; he had to be removed very soon! The students who had never gone on strike did so.
The situation turned normal.
Is it possible for one to run the hostels of students just by rules or poking the nose on the food?
How could a person have headed a university that too one like JNU, when the person couldn’t manage a hostel in an institution like the IIT where he was known commodity?
Does this not prove contrary to what ” said bythe HRD ministry told PMO last year. “Contrary to what is preached is practiced, in reality” as to what said , to our Honouable Prime Minister ” Baashan se Saashan Nehi Hotha ” .
Prof Jagdesh Kumar was a wrong choice for the Vice-Chancellor or head of any institution which required dealing with those that needed to be dealt more with Personal than Positional power.
I got to read of his having been made Wardon of one of the hostels of IIT Delhi, it happened much before his appointment as the VC.
And in a matter of a few days, the students of the hostel began to protest because of his interference in the menu or the day the students live in the hostel; he had to be removed very soon! The students who had never gone on strike did so.
The situation turned normal.
Is it possible for one to run the hostels of students just by rules or poking the nose on the food?
How could a person have headed a university that too one like JNU, when the person couldn’t manage a hostel in an institution like the IIT where he was known commodity?
Does this not prove contrary to what ” said bythe HRD ministry told PMO last year. “Contrary to what is preached is practiced, in reality” as to what said , to our Honouable Prime Minister ” Baashan se Saashan Nehi Hotha ” .