Dear Alma Mater and Junior Students

Assalam Alaikum

I am sharing this letter to the Editor, Times of India with you on these networks, to give moral support to thousands of well intentioned and hard-working teachers and students on the campus whose honest work is questioned by such frivolous writings. While some of the facts mentioned in the article are worth investigating by you and correcting , you have to be convinced that maki ng the CONCLUSION that degrees of AMU are worth nothing.....is a GROSSLY WRONG conclusion....

I hope when the University opens now, you all will make a sincere effort to correct all the deficiencies and make yourself proud when you go all over the world with your degrees.

You will continue to be targeted by outsiders and Mir Jaffars amongst you, unless you decide to imrove your conditions yourself.

Regards and Best Wishes

Dr. Tayyaba Qidwai
AMU 1978
Muscat, Oman

Copy of letter to Editor, Times of India , sent online on 30.9.07.

Dear Editor

There is no doubt that AMU is plagued by a sad turn of events, but  your reporter seems to have gone an extra mile to paint it blacker ,based on some non-corroborative statements made by some of the teachers. He reports from KANPUR but I wish he had literally gone some extra miles to Aligarh and published a more balanced report , based on sound proof .

The heading is very misleading based on a very mischieveous statement by an anonymous "senior faculty member" , who seems to make the saying - Rats leave a sinking ship first - sound very true. The heading of the article is an insult to the majority of hard working students , who make up the majority in any University and who earn their degrees honestly .Your reporter has targeted these innocent students, while reporting on the misdeeds of a few - 17 to be exact- out of the 25,000  students at the University.

Student unrest, criminals on the campus, politicisation of the students Union is a feature which is common in many of the Indian Universities and is by no means exclusive to AMU. While journalists need to report honestly on these, it is mischieveous to make sensational headlines - " Where degrees are sold like toffees " - which damages the reputation of what is good in an Institution.

Your Reporter has not only damaged the Academic credentials of AMU , but also put a question mark on your esteemed publication which is considered to be a balanced and authentic source of information. I would say this heading is a bad wrapper on good toffees !

Regards

Dr. Tayyaba Qidwai
Muscat, Oman

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Dr. Saba Khan Unregistered | Oct-01-07 This is a absolutly childish to publish these kind a articles in a reputed New paper..Just because of few bad elements, No one can write anything for whole community. Could anyone please provide an email of the editor of TOI, so that we can all send emails and condemn this negative publicity about Academic credentials. regards Reply 3   0

Riyaz Ahmed - For Dr. Tayyaba Qidwai Unregistered | Oct-01-07 Dear, Dr. Tayyaba Qidwai Assalam Alaikum I do very much agree to your request for the Alma Mater and Junior Students of AMU. With regards Riyaz Ahmed AMU 2005 Reply 2   0

Mohamamd Sajjad - ToI's Mischief and Justice Ma Unregistered | Oct-03-07 I express my heartiest congratulations to the AMUTA for sincerely, promptly and appropriately reacting to the ToI's dirty act of damaging the reputation of our alma mater.(AMUTA GBM to be held on 4th October '07) This is to be recalled that more serious damage than this was done by our VC M.Rahman, in April 1997, when he was reported to have said in an interview to Janak Singh, the correspondent of the ToI that, "AMU is bristling with ISI agents". Unfortunately, the protest (seeking clarification) was started only by a small group of students. Other sections responded in a manner which was too little and too late. Clarifications, given after much of dilly dally and reluctance from the VC, was far from satisfactory. But the then AMUTA did not file a suit of defamation. Quite a good number of the members of the then AMUTA are still in the list of the members of the present AMUTA. May I ask, why did not they press the AMUTA (1997) to go for the same action against the ToI. This damage was not from a correspondent of malafide intention but from the VC himself. While detecting the name of that anonymous Professor ( a Professor is a senior faculty member compared to Readers and Lecturers), who gave such a misleading, maliciously false and dangerously damaging statement of plagiarism in PhDs) is necessary to re-build the image of the AMU, equally necessary is to initiate actions against those found guilty in the Justice Mathew Committee Report, 1997, (made public after scandalous reluctance in 2007, that too with the stick of the RTI and CIC of India). Because building a good image of AMU requires such rectifications in the processes of recruitments and obtaining degrees. While consuming several hundred crores of rupees of the UGC, we must not flout its norms in recruitments, promotions, awarding degrees and other such accomplishments. May I ask, why did not the AMUTA and the mushrooming groupmail networks of the self righteous (at times overseas) alumni raise their voices to punish the culprits named in the Justice Mathew Report exposing irregularities of AMU? May I ask who were the people conniving to suppress the Report for 10 long years until the RTI's stick was wielded? Was it because many such guilty people might be close to these people or to the power lobbyists of AMU? If the AMUTA in its GBM to be held on 4th October'07, wishes to explore ways of sanitizing the damaged image of AMU, then actions against the guilty people in the Report, must be demanded. Similar charge of plagiarism was alleged by the Outlook, a weekly (in May ' 07), against Prof. P.K. Abdul Azis (now our VC), once he comes out of this overworked assignment of crisis management in AMU, I would request him to file a defamation suit against the weekly so that the controversies are put to rest by the judicial pronouncements, once and for all. Reply 3   3

Dr Abdul Waheed - ToI's Mischief Unregistered | Oct-03-07 October 1st 07 To, The Editor, The Times of India, New Delhi Dear Sir, It is highly painful and astonishing to read a report entitled, “ AMU: Where goons rule and guns boom on campus, published on October 1st 2007 in your newspaper. Both title of the report and the tone and tanner of the reporting are malicious as they misinform people about the academic credentials of the AMU. I have many reasons to lodge my protest against this report. First of all the reporter has wrongly quoted me. I have stated that present violence on the campus is a multi-layered and complex phenomenon. There are many reasons behind the eruption of violence. I have broadly identified four major factors of it- a) lack of administrative will to implement rules of University for student’s conducts, b) Kin network and groups of teachers and students having their vested interested, c) indifferent attitudes of Central Government in general and District administration in particular and d) the physical location of the University which is surrounded by localities of poor, unemployed and underemployed people. I did not use words like “private property” and “dictate terms from academic to financial”. Secondly, your reporter seems to be in hurry and does not bother to investigate into allegations. It has been alleged in the report that, “Thesis and Synopsis can be purchased from Shamshad market. Degrees are distributed like toffees”. Mr. Akhilesh Kumar Singh must know that AMU is the only University in India, which has made foreign examiners for examining Ph.D. thesis compulsory. AMU does not award Ph.D. degrees on the basis of client-patron relationship between supervisor and examiner of Ph.D. thesis as prevalent in many Indian Universities. I, therefore, request you to publish my clarification in your newspaper so people may could understand me in right perspective. I further request you not to publish such irresponsible and malicious reporting not only about AMU but also about any institutions of national and international importance. Being a responsible national daily your responsibility is to honestly investigate the causes of the problem and not disseminate wrong inform nation. Thanking you, Yours truly, Dr. Abdul Waheed,cepecami_amu@rediffmail.com Reader, Dept. of Sociology and Social Work, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh – 202 002 Reply 3   0

mohammad allam - my letter to the editor Unregistered | Oct-03-07 sir, It is enough for a person to be lier if he listens and passes any thing without varification.The report of your reporter Mr A.Kumar Sing "A.M.U.:Where goons rule and guns boom on campus"dated october01,2007 is nothing but the deliberate effort to tarnish the image of both-the university and your objective reporting.The purpose of this report is to disturb the calm water of the university again.The names that quoted by Mr A.k.sing are from previous administartion and puorpose is to provide a ground of enemity between the present administartion and the people of past administartion. As far as research is concerned then see how many research scholars got their Phd in last ten years.That is enough to show the availability of thesis at shamshad market.Regarding cross checking of thesis the reporter is also know nothing.Most of the submitted thesis going outside of the university for cross checking. Regarding guns, how many hundred the police recovered from the students and the hostels? just i want to say that it is shocking that reputed newspaper like your published this subjective piece of journalism .Which eroded the credibility of the paper within a night in the campus and before all those who know A.M.U. better. your's Mohammad Allam Reply 3   0

Huma B.Khan - India's BEST news paper doing Unregistered | Oct-03-07 Dear Editor, You r claiming that ur newspaper is best, but on which basis?Only for cheap publicity u published a news on hearsay grounds.How can u claim dat in AMU degrees r sold like toffees.You no wat ur reporter had done.You r playing wid d future of thousands students.It's a shamless,reckless n cheap act of your newspaper only for d cheap publicity.We work hard for a degree and you spoiled our labor by few words in a v little time.Shame on u,Freedom Of Press dosent mean that u can write ny thing.You owe a duty towords everyone.Your apology can not give us relief from this pain. "THANKS FOR HURT US" A VICTIM OF TIMES OF INDIA HUMA B. KHAN RESEARCH SCHOLER FACULTY OF LAW,AMU Reply 3   0

Rahat Abrar - PRO AMU Unregistered | Oct-03-07 Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh Editor Times of India New Delhi Sir, This is with reference to the article of Mr. Akhilesh Kumar Singh, Kanpur , TNN entitled "AMU: Where goons rule and guns boom on campus". Following facts are to be brought to your kind notice: 1. Your correspondent Mr. Akhilesh Kumar Singh has not bothered to contact any of the University Officials before doing this story to seek his version on the same. 2. It is non-sense to say that "degrees are distributed like toffees at AMU". We hereby challenge award of even a single degree like this. As a matter of fact, Ph.D. admission is normally done after conducting a written admission test, followed by an interview. In some faculties, Ph.D. synopsis is evaluated by the Research Committee and subsequently is defended by the candidate in the Board of Studies which has outside experts from other Universities. Then the proposal goes to a high level committee called "Committee for Advance Studies and Research" which is presided over by the Vice Chancellor himself and has several outside experts. Once Ph.D. is submitted, it is referred to three examiners, one of whom is necessarily a foreign expert. Only after unanimous positive reports from the three examiners and successful Viva-Voce examination, Ph.D. is awarded by the University. 3. Every University in India has few undesirable elements. AMU is no exception but the number of such people is minimal and this should not be over-stated in case of AMU. 4. It is mischievous to assert that the accounts of AMU are not properly audited. In fact account are not only audited by internal audit section of the Finance Office of AMU but also by the Government agencies viz., AG (UP) and CAG. And the same are placed before the Parliament of India like any other Central University every year. In view of the above, we request you to take strict disciplinary action against your correspondent. At the same time, we also urge you to publish another article on AMU which should highlight hard facts on the achievements of AMU. Prof. Faizan Mustafa -Dean F/O Law Prof. Javed Akhtar -Dean,F/O management Studies Prof Javed Musarrat Dean.F/O Agricultural Sciences Reply 2   0

mohammad allam - How to reach to the editor of Unregistered | Oct-04-07 Dear saba khan Assalamo Alaikum if you want to write to the editor of the newspaper then you go on site of Times Of India and in search option type A.M.U:where........... and click you will reach to the news item and beneath that report you will get option "letter to the editor".and after clicking that you will space to write your views to the editor.And you have to give your name,city name,email etc. Thanks Mohammad Allam Reply 2   0

Er.Ahmad Rais siddiqi(aligz) - AMU Unregistered | Oct-05-07 Sir, it is very sad and bad that such article are allowed to bublish. AMU is not distributing degrees like toffees. We all Must condemn it. Er.Ahmad Rais siddiqi(Alig) Fortmer AMU TT and Gymkhana Club. Dt;05.10.07 E mail araissiddiqi@yahoo.co.in Reply 2   0

Abdullah Khan - FLASH DOCUMENTARY in reply of Unregistered | Oct-07-07 this FLASH documentary is in reply to the baseless allegations raised by TOI's article on the reputation of AMU Reply 2   0

pankajsharma - ignature campaign Author | Oct-09-07 I think the teachers and students should join hands and should start a signature campaign against the malicious article published in the TOI. This shoukd be aimed at projecting the solidarity of the AMU community.I am hurt to the core by this. Reply 2   0

Webmaster - Ankit Raizada Sb Unregistered | Oct-17-07 Dear Ankit There is no such issue to publish your comments or whatsoever..But we really need your identity, Like what is your relation with University, Enrollment number, Degree and in which year you passed out from university with proper current contact information. Just given a name actually not going to work according to our terms and conditions. If you are really a well wisher of AMU then please come forward and provide us all the info..We will publish your concern. regards Webmaster MeraChaman Reply 2   0

Aijaz Ahmad - AMU CRISIS Unregistered | Oct-23-07 The news published in the TOI like reputed newspaper has not only defamed the glorious Institution but exposed itself that the reputation of this newspaper is turning down. It has become biased due to A K Singh and other like minded reporters. The Editor must enquire the matter and take serious action against the reporter to maintain the old position of the newspaper. AMU is not only the university which produces the intelectuals who glorifying the Nation all over the World but its a mirror reflecting the culture and civilisation of our country. Its a movement and no Mir Jaffer and Jagat Seth can harm it. No doubt some bad elements recently wounded the university but for those very incidents university can not be blamed or branded in bad sense. Its the time of crisis and we should give our valuable suggessions for its betterment or improvement rather than remarking baselessly. Reply 3   0

Mohammad Sajjad - Mathew Report on Irregularitie Unregistered | Oct-24-07 Can't we launch similar campaign to press for action against those held guilty by Justice Mathew? this report has catalogued some of the gross irregularities that took place during 1991-95 in AMU. Reply 1   0

munavvar - dr qidwai is right . Unregistered | Nov-24-07 assalaam all it is always better to give solution rather than explanations.i believe we should prove ourselves in our life outside the campus by exhibiting a remarkable reflection of our legacy.and do not change the brand,, chai peete raho. Reply 2   0

sagar sinha - my enrollment number Unregistered | May-18-08 plese get my enrollment number on net or from where i can see my roll number Reply 1   0

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