Shifting of site comes under shade of distrust

The decision of the Cabinet has proposed to reduce the south campus IGNOU Regional District Kollam Chavara was apparently sabotaged by vested interest, it was stressed.

29 June The government today decided to grant in 8 acres of land directly opposite the now-defunct Kerala factory premises NH First Pipeline Chavarri. It 'was the Kollam district were next collection report that the land was available in the block No. 22 (review of 29 seconds) and Neendakara Village Government took the decision in this regard.

Site selection was made considering the educational backwardness in the neighboring regions and provides easy access to the coastal population.

Based on the Cabinet decision, the government issued orders to give the land on July 11, 2011 and directed the District Collector to initiate measures for the assignment rules of the underground.

Therefore recommended, however, political pressure after the VN Rajasekharan Pillai, Vice Chancellor IGNOU presumably kept in the dark about the availability of government land Chavarri, presumably. It is also argued that the President's wife Sulekha G Karthikeyan, who is the regional coordinator of the Southern Regional Office IGNOU, to play a role in the transition site. The new proposed site for the campus is a farm Vithura Jersey to Thiruvananthapuram in an area where there is no infrastructure facility is available.
Labour Minister Shibu Baby John, who wanted Chavara campus, called "express" Rajasekharan Pillai, who had assured that the site Chavara. ''The proposal is included, even in the budget. However, when we decided to include the site in Vithura, I said. I felt betrayed,''he said.

However, Shibu said the school needs 25 acres of land, which was not available in Chavara, and that was the reason behind the change in the location of Vithura.

It was after leaving Rajasekharan Pillai as president, the current leadership of IGNOU realized that the government had given land to Chavara. IGNOU, awash in a serious financial crisis that has to distribute lakh of rupees to build infrastructure such as roads, electricity connection and water supply for the campus, officials said IGNOU 'Express' . on condition of anonymity.

''You can have Vithura is an emerging center of education in the district capital where are IIST and ICER. But it is so important to the IGNOU campus of Southern Regional in one place. Instead, it would be useful for students of Kollam and Alappuzha districts, especially the coastal strip to the campus of Chavara'', Anil Kumar, an MBA student and native enrolled in IGNOU Kayamkulam, called "Express".

Source: IBNlive