By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR: With entire KIIT Deemed University under scanner of CBI and it sister concern Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences under close watch of Medical Council of India, founder secretary of the leading educational institution Dr Achyuta Samant stepped down from his post raising eyebrows.
Dr Samanta attributed his resignation from top posts of KIIT Empire as part of his aim to play a bigger role in education and social sector in national level.KIIT society has accepted his resignation letters as per media reports.
Dr Samant had been heading KIIT since last 20 years. The resignation of Dr Samanta came few months after the MCI debarred KIMS for MBBS admission for two years from 2012-13-2013-14 following a CBI charge sheet.
But defying, sources said, KIMS reportedly carried out MBBS admission despite a ban imposed by MCI. MBBS students are paying around 27 to 28 lakh for 9 semesters’ examinations and Rs 2.60 lakh per semester.
As Dr Samant is a member in University Grant Commission, he faced tough time because his pending CBI against KIIT.
The MCI website , which clearly mentioned that KIMS has been debarred from MBBS admission for the year 2012-13, 2013-14 but in reality, admission completed in KIMS.
Sources said that students, who qualified KIIT Medical Exam-2012 entrance had been allowing for admission despite ban by MCI.Seven doctors of KIMS, a sister concern of KIIT caught red handed by CBI. They were saving KIIT from the clutches of MCI.
Seven posed them as KIIT doctors to save Dr Samant from MCI. CBI sources informed that the government medicos, who were suspended by Naveen Patnaik following the allegation paid hefty amounts to masquerade as KIM’s doctors by Dr Samanta to save disqualification from MCI
On January 30 CBI charge sheeted four senior functionaries of KIMS – Bhagabati Charan Das (dean-cum-principal), Achyuta Samanta (former secretary), Debasish Debata (assistant personnel officer) and Dilip Kumar Panda (deputy chief executive officer) – for resorting to “fraudulent” practice to impress the MCI squad, which inspected the institute on March 5, 2010.
As per reports, four KIMS functionaries were charge sheeted under sections 120 (B), 420 (cheating), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (using forged documents as genuine) and 176 IPC. On November 11, 2010, CBI registered a case against KIM’s authorities following allegations of irregularities.
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