President's nod to sack Pondicherry University VC

President Pranab Mukherjee has given his assent to HRD Ministry's recommendation to sack Pondicherry University Vice Chancellor Chandra Krishnamurthy, who is facing allegations of plagiarism and misrepresentation.
"The President has given approval to a HRD ministry recommendation for sacking of Pondicherry VC," a senior HRD Ministry official told PTI, adding that "an order in this regard would be issued soon."
Krishnamurthy had been issued a show cause notice after a UGC committee found her guilty of plagiarism and misrepresentation.
Krishnamurthy took charge on February 1, 2013 for a five-year term.
Last August, she was served the show cause notice asking her to explain why she should not be dismissed.

However, the VC had challenged the "procedural fairness" in issue of the notice, but after a court verdict found nothing wrong in it, she replied to it earlier this year.
This is the second instance when HRD ministry has pushed for dismissal of vice chancellor of a central university.
Earlier this year, it had dismissed Visva Bharati vice chancellor Sushanta Dattagupta, who faced allegations of financial and administrative irregularities.