Eminent litterateur Manik Ghodgate, popularly known as 'Poet Grace', passed away recently, but his name is still listed for PhD aspirants in the guide of the arts faculty, as per the varsity's website.
Similarly, former pro-vice chancellor Madhukar Rode died in a mishap on November 12, 2010, but his name is still in the list of PhD supervisors for the commerce faculty.
Controller of Examinations (CoE) Siddharth Kane admitted that the names of many dead persons were in the list.
"The matter came up for discussion many times, but somehow could not progress beyond that. It is the responsibility of respective research recognition committees (RRCs) to point it out to the authorities concerned who will then take up the matter in the Academic Council," he said.
Senior senate member Anil Dhage, who is also secretary of Nagpur University Teachers Association (NUTA), said "this was pure lethargy."
"We have raised the issue many times with higher officials, but their response was poor. It is high time that they took such issues seriously as their reputation is at stake," he said.
Dhage said renowned astrologer and international English scholar P S Shastri had left the city about two decades ago and expired some years back, but his name is still there in the varsity faculty list.
Many times students called on such persons' home and are left embarrassed when told that the person was no more, he said.
"It is just apathy that such a big institution cannot update its website. In fact, it is the responsibility of the respective HoDs to remove all such names from the list," he said.
