Srinagar: The Research Scholars and other faculty members of the Zoology Department are up in arms against its Head of Department and have been staging continuous protests from past one week demanding the immediate removal of incumbent HoD.
The faculty alleges that the behaviour of the incumbent HoD is not up to the mark as she acts as an autocrat in the department humiliating and insulting everyone from time to time.
The faculty members who have boycotted the classes said that the University has a system of rotating headship and last year in August Prof. Ulfat Jan was assigned the job of performing the assignment of heading the Department, but from day one the HoD displayed her autocratic behaviour and showed utter disrespect towards senior faculty members. It is an ordinary thing for HoD to humiliate any one, any time.
She ahs offended students, scholars, faculty and non-teaching staff, a research scholar said on condition of anonymity.
The protesting faculty added that on the intervention of Dean Academic Affairs, the incumbent HoD held a meeting with the faculty to bridge the widening gap and settle all the matter within the department, but to our utter surprise the HoD displayed arrogant behaviour and directed some faculty members to leave the meeting hall. They said adding that even some top officials are fed-up with the functioning of the HOD.. The HOD is using the good offices to save her chair, a research scholar said adding that she has failed to maintain cordial relations with her subordinates and students.
They appealed the administration to remove HoD Zoology immediately so that department could function normally.
When contacted HoD Zoology Prof Ulfat Jan said that some research scholars are spewing venom against her because she has not cleared their research papers. To check the menace of copy paste research titles, I constituted an expert committee which reported that most of the research scholars have repeated the old material and have indulged in fraud. I simply told them to be innovative and come up with their own research and the result is in front of all. They are fuming and want me out from the department, Jan said.
She further added that all these research scholars are her students and they dont have guts to face her.
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