Only days after replying to an enquiry over the appointment of former Hajj director general Rao Shakeel, former premier Yousaf Raza Gilani has been asked to explain another alleged illegal appointment.
This time, Gilani will personally appear before the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on December 11 to face an interrogation over the appointment of Adnan Khawaja as the managing director of the Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) in 2010.
Gilani was accused of giving verbal orders for the appointment of Khawaja, his friend and a beneficiary of the National Reconciliation Ordinance, to the lucrative post of MD OGDCL. Khawaja allegedly has only completed his matriculation and did not have the qualifications to be appointed as MD.
The SC earlier directed NAB to launch a probe into Khawaja’s appointment. NAB filed a reference against former establishment secretary Ismail Qureshi and Interior Ministry Joint Secretary Ahsan Raja rather than against Gilani for the appointment of Khawaja as well as Ahmed Riaz Sheikh, another NRO beneficiary, as Additional Director General Federal Investigation Agency (FIA).
A NAB official said Gilani will have to appear before the investigation team and answer their questions on Khawaja’s appointment and his personal relations with the man who claimed to be Gilani’s jail mate.
“Earlier, Gilani has already denied knowing Khawaja. He claimed he was never friends with him,” said the official.
A Supreme Court bench, hearing the NRO implementation case on Tuesday, ordered NAB to suspend proceedings against the two officers involved in Khawaja and Sheikh’s appointments till the decision of the NRO implementation case was announced.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 5th, 2012.
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IIT Kharagpur - Officiating Registrar Mr. T K Ghosal who appeared for interview on Dec 05. 2012 for the Post of Registrar in IIT Kharagpur does not fulfil the minimum qualification prescribed for recruitment as per UGC / MHRD / Judgement of Supreme Court of India, i.e., 10+2+3+2 / 11+1+3+2 pattern, and has secured less than 50% marks in Master's Degree received by Distance Education.
As per MHRD / UGC norm, the educational qualification for the post of Registrar must be as Under:
"A Master's Degree with at least 55% of Marks or its equivalent grade of 'B' in the UGC Scale 7 point scale."
Members of Screening Committee including this committee chairman Mr. B K Mathur have shortlisted the name of Mr. T K Ghosal without following the above criteria and T K Ghosal's allegations.
Mr.B K Mathur is under CBI scanner because of his involvement in fake institute scam in IIT-Kharagpur. Mr. B K Mathur did not publish any publications and produce single PhD till date and he also is a second class graduate in physics but he is now professor, Dean, Chairman of Information Chell, and Chief Vigilance Officer. Mr. B K Mathur was one of the members of the board of governors of IEE (I) which was the fake institute running by Professors of IIT Kharagpur.
Now Authorities of IIT Kharagpur have appointed Mr. T K Ghosal as Registrar of IIT Kharagpur by ignoring many meritorious candidates.