NEW DELHI: UPSC chairman Manoj Soni has tendered his resignation barely a yr into his six-year tenure, citing “private causes”. The information of his resignation, believed to have been submitted to the President a while again, comes amid the controversy over IAS probationer Puja Khedkar‘s choice to the civil providers primarily based on cast id, which had on Friday led UPSC to file a police criticism towards her.
Govt sources, nevertheless, instructed TOI that Soni’s resignation was not linked in any approach to the Khedkar episode. “The resignation was submitted virtually a month in the past, properly earlier than the IAS probationer’s choice turned a matter of probe,” an officer instructed TOI.
There isn’t a readability on whether or not govt has taken any name but on accepting Soni’s resignation. A supply indicated that govt could also be mulling over an acceptable substitute earlier than relieving Soni.
Soni, who had joined UPSC as a member in 2017 and took over as its chairman final yr, is alleged to be eager to step right down to dedicate extra time to “socio-religious” actions. Reviews indicated that he needs to offer his undivided time to serving the Anoopam Mission, a non-profit group linked to the Swaminarayan sect that he’s deeply concerned with. The resignation can be mentioned to have talked about well being causes, based on a supply.
Soni, an academician thought-about near Prime Minister Narendra Modi, turned the vice-chancellor of his alma mater Maharaja Sayajirao College, Baroda, in 2005. Solely 40 years then, he was the youngest ever vice-chancellor in India. Later from 2009 to 2015, Soni was vice-chancellor of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Open College, Gujarat for 2 phrases.
Controversies rocked his tenure at MSU with the most important being the notorious “obscenity row” of 2007 when objections had been raised towards a pupil’s artworks, alleging they harm spiritual sentiments. Soni suspended a professor for not abiding by his directives to shut the exhibition.
Although a governor-appointed committee beneficial Panikkar’s suspension be withdrawn with a light reprimand, its report was not accepted.As an alternative, primarily based on a departmental inquiry headed by a retired district decide, Panikkar was completely suspended and his retirement advantages withheld.
Soni’s tenure additionally witnessed controversies over appointments of six officers in a non-quorum assembly and admission of a pupil from a personal faculty into the grant-in-aid School of Expertise and Engineering (FTE).
UPSC had on Friday filed an FIR with the Delhi Police towards Puja Khedkar for having fraudulently availed of makes an attempt on the Civil Providers Examination (CSE) past the permissible restrict by faking her id.
Govt sources, nevertheless, instructed TOI that Soni’s resignation was not linked in any approach to the Khedkar episode. “The resignation was submitted virtually a month in the past, properly earlier than the IAS probationer’s choice turned a matter of probe,” an officer instructed TOI.
There isn’t a readability on whether or not govt has taken any name but on accepting Soni’s resignation. A supply indicated that govt could also be mulling over an acceptable substitute earlier than relieving Soni.
Soni, who had joined UPSC as a member in 2017 and took over as its chairman final yr, is alleged to be eager to step right down to dedicate extra time to “socio-religious” actions. Reviews indicated that he needs to offer his undivided time to serving the Anoopam Mission, a non-profit group linked to the Swaminarayan sect that he’s deeply concerned with. The resignation can be mentioned to have talked about well being causes, based on a supply.
Soni, an academician thought-about near Prime Minister Narendra Modi, turned the vice-chancellor of his alma mater Maharaja Sayajirao College, Baroda, in 2005. Solely 40 years then, he was the youngest ever vice-chancellor in India. Later from 2009 to 2015, Soni was vice-chancellor of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Open College, Gujarat for 2 phrases.
Controversies rocked his tenure at MSU with the most important being the notorious “obscenity row” of 2007 when objections had been raised towards a pupil’s artworks, alleging they harm spiritual sentiments. Soni suspended a professor for not abiding by his directives to shut the exhibition.
Although a governor-appointed committee beneficial Panikkar’s suspension be withdrawn with a light reprimand, its report was not accepted.As an alternative, primarily based on a departmental inquiry headed by a retired district decide, Panikkar was completely suspended and his retirement advantages withheld.
Soni’s tenure additionally witnessed controversies over appointments of six officers in a non-quorum assembly and admission of a pupil from a personal faculty into the grant-in-aid School of Expertise and Engineering (FTE).
UPSC had on Friday filed an FIR with the Delhi Police towards Puja Khedkar for having fraudulently availed of makes an attempt on the Civil Providers Examination (CSE) past the permissible restrict by faking her id.
