NCCT Chairman refuses to call Committee meeting!

NCUI Chairman Chandra Pal Singh Yadav who doubles up as the NCCT Chairman also has put his feet down and refused to sign on a paper brought by NCCT Secretary Mohan Kumar Mishra calling for a meeting of the newly reconstituted committee of NCCT, according to informed sources.

Yadav, source quote , is rather annoyed with the way the Ministry has gone about reconstituting the Committee members- something that has so far been the prerogative of NCUI.

As in the past, NCUI prepared a list and sent this for the Ministry’s approval. But this time the NDA govt rejected all its names replacing them with its own people, quotes a source. Several GC members see this as a gross violation of NCUI’s by laws as well as that of the MSCS Act.

NCUI’s list was not only rejected wholesale by the Ministry but also the only name that figured in the Ministry list was that of NCUI President who has to act as the Chairman of NCCT committee, going by the bye laws.

A highly-placed source said the President of NCUI could find a birth due to mandatory provisions in the bye-laws. He is the Chairman of the Committee, you like it or not. It was impossible to do way with his name; all others including the Vice-President’s name was rejected.

An angered NCUI President has refused to call a meeting of the newly reconstituted NCCT Committee (Only Chairman can do) and has written to the Ministry that unless NCUI’s primacy in the matter is restored no meeting would take place, informed sources confide.

According to the NCUI bye laws only NCUI can issue order regarding NCCT but of late the Ministry has been doing this in a blatant violation of co-operative principles and MSCS Act 2002, said a peeved GC member on condition of anonymity.

There is a growing realization among the Governing Council members that in country like India which boasts a robust judiciary, there is no point running from pillar to post. They are now keen on approaching court in the matter. “Let’s do it”, say all GC members with one voice.

Earlier, the reconstituted Management Committee of Vamnicom, an exercise carried out in April, has about eleven members with the Additional Secretary nominated as the Chairman-a position earlier held by NCUI President. There are about eleven members and all of them were nominated without keeping the apex cooperative body -the nodal agency for cooperative education and training in the country in the loop.