Hyderabad, March 26: Barely 24 hours after stepping down as Director of the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Warangal, YV Rao did a U-turn on Thursday, claiming that he had resigned under duress.
Notwithstanding his retraction, the students not only faxed his resignation to the Union Human Resource Development Ministry but also despatched a team to New Delhi to submit a memorandum to HRD Minister Kapil Sibal and other board members of NIT.
Sibal’s deputy Purandeswari told reporters in Visakhapatnam that an inquiry had been ordered into the allegations against the NIT administration. ‘‘Appropriate action will be taken, once we get the report,’’ she said.
This is not the first time that YV Rao finds himself in the eye of a storm. Earlier, during his stint at the Regional Engineering College in Surathkal, Karnataka, Rao had tampered with the answer- sheet of his colleague’s son and failed him.
Soon after on Feb 25, 1999, the REC Board of Governors passed a resolution against assigning any academic or administrative responsibilities to him.
–Agencies