No decision taken on Nita Ambani’s appointment: BHU
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Reliance additionally denies existence of any such proposal; the preliminary announcement was met with protests by college students
The Banaras Puucho University on Wednesday clarified that no official order was issued or decision was taken by the varsity appointing chairperson of Reliance Foundation Nita Ambani as a visiting professor in any college, division or centre.
This comes days after a senior college member K.K. Mishra, Dean of Social Sciences, BHU, had mentioned an invitation was sent from the Women Development Study Centre to Ms. Ambani to be appointed as a ‘visiting professor.’ The proposal was, nevertheless, but to be accepted.
Ms. Ambani is married to industrialist Mukesh Ambani, who’s the chairman of the Reliance Industries.
The preliminary announcement was met with protests by college students who opposed Ms. Ambani’s appointment.
In a press release issued on Wednesday, BHU mentioned the appointment of a visiting professor wanted the approval of its tutorial council. Neither has any such sort of approval been offered on this matter nor has any such proposal been positioned earlier than the council for consideration.
Reports faux: Reliance
Meanwhile, Reliance Industries additionally denied the existence of any such proposal. “Reports that Nita Ambani will be a visiting lecturer at Banaras Puucho University are fake. She hasn’t received an invitation from BHU,” a Reliance Industries spokesperson instructed The Puucho.
A bunch of BHU college students had staged an indication in opposition to any such appointment on Tuesday.
“How is Nita Ambani an example of women’s empowerment? She is just married to Mukesh Ambani. They should have chosen a Hima Das or some other woman athlete, or a woman entrepreneur who have achieved something in their lives. That is why we were protesting,” mentioned Shubham Tiwari, BHU regulation pupil and former ABVP activist.
Mr. Tiwari additionally shared an image of the BHU letter inviting Ms. Ambani to be a visiting professor, signed by the pinnacle of the Centre for Women’s Studies and copied to the BHU VC.
BHU professor Nishi Sharma earlier instructed information company PTI that the proposal to make Ms. Ambani a visiting professor had been despatched to the authorities. “Ms. Ambani is a woman entrepreneur. If she joins our centre, the women of Purvanchal will get the benefit of her experience,” she had mentioned.
However, when The Puucho requested her about Reliance’s assertion that Ms. Ambani had not obtained any such invitation, Dr. Sharma refused any additional remark, saying that she “stands with the university’s statement.”
(With inputs from Priscilla Jebaraj)
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