Shiksha Samachar: C.V.C to investigate the scam of fake IEE at IIT

C.V.C to investigate the scam of fake IEE at IIT
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Central Vigilance Commission to investigate scam after several students of IEE
has raised complains against various staff of  IIT as they has assured that IEE
was affiliated with IIT kharagpur.

New Delhi: The Ministry of  Human Resource Development (HRD) has been asked by
the Central Vigilance Commission to conduct a detail investigation of the scam
related to operation of some fake institute called Institution of Electrical
Engineers (IEE) at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - Kharagpur.
This action has been taken by Central Vigilance Commission after they had
recieved complain by several students that they had been duped by the faculty of
the IIT as they had promised that the institute was affiliated to IIT-Kharagpur.
The ministry will be constituting a probe panel to investigate the scandal in
the next few days.
Several senior faculty members from the IIT had been involved in the scam and it
was also reported that the fake institute IEE had he approval of two previous
directors of the IIT, namely, K.L. Chopra and S.K. Dube. IIT-Kharagpur had even
allotted a staff quarter to IEE while Dube had been the director.
The unearthing of the scam has led to Ghosh being suspended and an internal
enquiry being conducted against him. Ghosh has alleged that the fake institute
had been running before he had taken over as Director of the institute and said
that the faculty members were not involved in the running of the institute.