BHOPAL : The services of MANIT director Dr.Appu Kuttan KK were terminated on Thursday. Ministry of Human Resources development (MHRD) ordered the termination.
He was on two months’ leave and Nagpur NIT director Narendra S Chaudhary was holding the charge of director since February. But when he expressed his desire to rejoin, MHRD terminated his services.
Appukuttan was appointed as director of MANIT for five years on September 6, 2011. His contract was about to expire on September 6, 2016.
For the past few couple of months, he was at loggerheads with the institute’s board of governors (BoG).
He was allegedly involved in irregularities in construction work including academic block. Professor Kuttan was facing several allegations including delayed promotion of assistant professors, decline in academic performance and not releasing foreign tour grant of professors.
