The Comptroller and Auditor General of India has criticised the Jawaharlal Nehru University for failing to fill 1,016 seats in various courses in the past five years. Also, the CAG has also lashed out at the varsity for not utilising funds well.
The CAG blamed the defective admission policy of the varsity according to which only one single list of selected candidates is to be released. The second list was to be taken out only if the intake in any programme fell short by 50 per cent. This condition was not met and the university did not release second cut-off list.
The CAG opined that the varsity could have given admission Indian aspirants against the vacant seats meant for foreign nationals by modifying its admission policy.
The JNU failed to implement OBC policy in admissions and did not fully utilise the OBC grant. The varsity even diverted OBC grant for other purposes.
The CAG came out heavily against JNU for losing interest by parking a huge fund of `1.5 crores in savings bank account and for unfruitful expenditure of `1.77 crores on e-governance.
In addition to it, the varsity did not utilise 31 per cent of the infrastructure grant during the period of report.
The JNU did not implement the recommendations of the Punnayya Committee (1992-93) regarding mobilisation of internal resources. The university could generate 1.49 to 5.91 per cent only of its total recurring expenditure as against 15-25 per cent recommended by the Punnayya committee.
The varsity is facing shortage of teaching staff by 33 per cent of the total sanctioned posts in teaching cadres remained vacant as of March 2010. The CAG also said that over 20 per cent students drop out or fail in the courses.