A private University like Amity should not be allowed to create and amass wealth. Some of the specific flaws and ill deeds are listed below - 1. Students –
a) Sponsored and non-sponsored category in admission without any logic. Two categories of fees namely sponsored and non-sponsored with huge variations in amount between them is a total fraud.
b) Admissions take place right from April till October and in some cases even beyond. These continue even when seats are full. Every person pays Rs. 1100/-. Thus money made in crores. No regard to academic norms.
c) There is no reservation of seat for physically disabled. There is no incentive for sportsmen. No special quota for them.
d) There is no scope of admission to SC, ST, EWS or OBC.
e) Hundreds of students are struck of for non-payment of fees. They are expected to do so even before completion of one semester. If one is not able to pay fees before start of semester then each one of them has to pay rupees 15, 000/- for re-admission. This is cheating and fraud.
f) Hundreds of students are failed and then given re-exam by way of supplementary exams. This is a trick only to generate extra money.
g) The policy of having special supplementary exam for final year and pre-final year students and of improvement examination is a fraud and clever way to favor highly connected students.
h) Large amount is collected from students for late fee deposit charges, issue of duplicate I card or mark sheet or admit cards. Total income in lakhs is earned by the Amity in this way.
i) Students are not paid traveling allowance, boarding, lodging and registration fee most of the time when they go out to represent Amity.
j) Laboratories are without necessary equipment. Chemicals and maintenance stores are not provided.
k) Strict and unreasonable rules for attendance. No consideration is given for sickness or other misfortunes.
l) A Moot Court hall is provided but is generally misused for other purposes.
m) A student wanting to discontinue studies and shift to some other University/college is denied migration certificate or NOC till he pays for the entire programme. This is unreasonable and illegal. This is so even if one wants to go to ALS Delhi from ALS Noida. 2. Family and Staff –
a) Nonpayment of remuneration to faculty for invigilation, moderation and paper setting. Academic work is substandard. Amity,(AUUP) is one university where teaching, paper setting, invigilation, moderation and evaluation are done by same faculty. Even syllabus is decided by the same set of people.
b) Non-payment to faculty of full scale of UGC grade. Latest UGC scales are not being paid. Though in NCR, HRA and other allowances even when given are of UP rates.
c) Faculty is kept busy in various administrative works(like Mentor, CR, Sangathan, Human Values Quarter, Anti ragging or Youth Fest etc) but no payment is given to them.
d) No salary slip is issued to faculty and staff. No one knows the reason for deduction.
e) Very complex rules for promotion and assessment, increment criteria.
f) No promotion boards held in last two years. All are disgusted. A number of faculties who had appeared for promotion board over eighteen months back are unaware of results. No promotion to the staff and inadequate increment given.
g) Annual increments are delayed over two years. Even when finally given, the amount is small. Management thus saves lakhs of rupees by way of interest.
h) Payment of visiting faculty is very meager.
i) Having very large number of post in AUUP that have no academic relevance.
j) Lack of Standards – a large number of faculty do not meet the criteria of minimum qualifications laid down. A number of faculties are without NET and/or Ph.D.
k) Hundreds of Faculties have resigned in last five years due to frustration.
l) Faculty is not given benefits of PF, gratuity, leave encashment or medical etc.
m) DA is kept pending.
n) No allowances or honorarium paid to do library or mentor work or stream coordinators.
o) Faculty is kept busy in various administrative works but no payment is given to them.
p) Faculties are not allowed to form union to look into and project their demands.
q) No benefit of leave or vacations to part time faculty.
r) No motivation for staff.
s) One of the Directors of a teaching institution cannot speak English. The person does not teach. It is a mystery how Ph.D being done under Dr.'-'. It is being written by Ms.'-' and typed by Ms'-'.
t) No facility of car loan, conveyance loan or house loan to faculty and staff.
u) Study leave provision for the faculty is non-existent.
v) All faculty and staff have to subscribe to bio metric attendance at the main gate and also in the building. Beyond this they have to record entry and departure manually in the attendance register.
Peons and Class IV – almost all of them are on contract and denied to minimum wages. Staff and class 4 employees including casual labor are totally exploited.
Library –
i- Law Library is ill equipped. Number of books is very small. Books over Rs. 1000/ are not encouraged for procurement.
ii- No safety or security in library. Thefts are rampant.
VISIT OF UGC EXPERT COMMITTEE
They are fooled during their inspections. There are no faculty boards, offices or meetings etc.
Chairman of BCI, Bar Council of UP and Delhi are entertained. But Bar Council norms are flouted.
The land and assets are in name of the foundation.
Huge gaps in the number of Associate Professors and Professors. The faculty is disillusioner and lacks motivation.
Accreditation is achieved by dubious means. NAAC ranking was managed by deceit and bribes. The University takes credit for ranking by unknown foreign entities.
Why have eminent persons like Dr. Raj Singh, Dr. Rama Patnayak, the Registrar Mathur, COE Mr. Sethi, Prof. Janardan Jha, Prof. M.S. Raste, Dr. Mrs. S.K. Verma, Maj Gen R K Dhawan, Sanjeev Chaturvedi left? They were all disgusted.
Statutory Bodies –EC, AC and BOS are held as mere rituals. Agenda is circulated just one day in advance or even or same day. Minutes are issued months later.
Multipulation – the management boasts of close ties and favour done to many eminent personalities. They have all been obliged and influenced.
Secular outlook and practice are suppressed. Arya Samaj practices are compulsory.
Members of the inspection, audit and quality teams from outside in the past have all been influenced by lavish gifts and undesirable approaches.
Undue interference by the chancellor in even routine matters whereas role of the Visitor is only cosmetic.
Size of classes(number of students in some institutions) is too large. Check up the attendance register.
Different policy for UP(Lucknow) and Noida campuses.
A practice of having private events like Sangathan or Amity Human Values Quarter and Day of Belonging to celebrate birthdays.
Honorary doctorates are awarded during the convocation or at special convocation only to cultivate person in high authority.
Retention of very old faculty like Dr. Ajeet Verma, Dr. Surendra Kumar, A.K. Srivastava, RR Grover, S.S. Agarwal, S.K. Pauchauri, R.K. Durgan, B B Dhar, B B Singh, HSP Singh, BP Singh Sehgal, PD Bhargava, RM Agarwal, KS Bains, Tahir Mehmood, JK Mittal, Nilendra Kumar and V N Wadhva, R C Kochhar more than forty others due to this yunger faculty is deep motivated.
Defective cadre structure where there are very few Prof and Associate Prof.
The bathrooms are poorly equipped with no soap, towels or tissue papers.
ACs are not functional.
Corruption is all pervasive amongst security staff at the gates.
Amity taken pride in acquiring recognitions and accreditations from dubious and unknown ranking agencies.
There is cheating by having similar institutions like ASB, ABS and AIBS etc.
All contracts for canteen, shops, photocopy, buses and security have been managed by the family member of the trustees.
How is it that in very short time amity has set-up university campuses at Noida, Lucknow, Chhattisgarh, Jaipur(Rajasthan) Manesar(Haryana), Gwalior(Madhya Pradesh), New Bombay(Maharashtra) North-east, Dubai, Singapur and other places.
