Anna university to carry out monthly faculty verification in engg colleges
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Sources in the university said it would help check whether faculty members shown as working during the physical inspection continue to work in those colleges or not. "Aadhaar-based biometric authentication of existing faculty members with unique ID will be carried out every month. New faculty members without Anna University ID can submit the duly filled-in faculty profile with supporting documents on the web portal," a circular from the university to colleges said.
A principal from a private engineering college said the university can consider a centralised attendance portal or conduct a surprise visit during the academic year instead of asking for faculty members' details every month. "We even have to submit documents for faculty members on leave or who quit," the principal said.
Anti-corruption NGO Arappor Iyakkam, in July last year, exposed that 353 individuals were working in multiple engineering colleges for 2023-24.
Following this, Anna University's internal probe found that the colleges filled around 2,000 faculty positions for 2023-24 and 2024-25 with bogus faculty members.
Many faculty members were wrongly shown by colleges as working in multiple institutions at the same time as well. Anna University also suspended its former vice-chancellor R Velraj for providing affiliation to colleges with bogus faculty members.
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