By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Hyderabad: Minority Employee Welfare Association of the University of Hyderabad (UH-MEWA) – a registered body of employees belonging to minority communities – has written a letter to the Vice Chancellor of the University Prof. Ramakrishna Ramaswamy, alleging biasness against employees belonging to the minority communities at the University and has urged him to treat them “fairly and equally”.
In a letter dated December 3, 2013, General Secretary of the Association, Muqtar Ahmed appealed to the VC to “treat all minority employees fairly and equally on par with other employees.”
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The letter points to six specific instances to highlight the “bias, discrimination and unequal treatment towards Minority Muslim employees,” in particular.
It alleges that no minority has ever been recruited on compassionate grounds, although their conditions is often to the state of getting bankrupt.
One year EOL was refused to Dr Rosina Nasir on the ground that she has put in only four years’ service at the University (generally 5 years’ service is required), but another faculty was given one year EOL immediately after working for hardly a week.
MACP of general secretary of UH-MEWA, Muqtar Ahmed is pending for more than two years, even after the constitution of review committee.
Even though several Muslim employees are in the top of the list on seniority, they are overlooked while giving promotions. There are instances of Aleem Khadri and Basha who were given ad hoc promotion instead of regular ones.
Further, Sadiq Hussain, is the senior most Assistant Registrar with 5 years “outstanding” Annual Confidential Report (ACR) grading with clean track record without any complaint. But he has allegedly been facing discrimination and victimization and not given promotion although there are vacancies.
MEWA alleges that much junior ARs like Negi Reddy and Mr Saradhi have been favored and promoted.
University’s response: Meanwhile, the University administration has termed the allegations as “baseless.”
Currently being holidays, all the high officials of the University including the Vice Chancellor, Registrar and Public Relations’ Officer (PRO) are on leave.
When TCN contacted the PRO Ashish Jacob Thomas on his mobile phone, he said that he was at his native place in Kerala and requested to mail the query to the Vice Chancellor Prof. Ramakrishna Ramaswamy and Registrar Prof. B. Raja Shekhar.
Responding to TCN’s mail, Vice Chancellor Prof Ram Ramaswamy has rubbished the allegations, and urged to talk to the Registrar for detailed response on the issue, once he is back. “The allegations that have been raised are quite baseless; the University of Hyderabad has been very fair in its treatment of all issues relating to minorities on our campus,” he wrote in reply to TCN’s query.