Administration
The Governor of Goa, Bharat Vir Wanchoo is the chancellor of the university, Dr. Satish Ramnath Shetye is the vice-chancellor, and Prof. Vijayendra P. Kamat is the registrar.
The CAG (Comptroller and Auditor General) of India says that the number of students during 2001-02 to 2005-06 in four departments of French, Philosophy, Portuguese and Center for Latin American Studies was less than five but total expenditure on these departments was Rs 1.66 crore during 2001-2006. GU claimed students opt for professional courses which causes low student-to-faculty ratio. While 31 percent of the academic posts were vacant, the recommendations of the Korgaonkar committee to reduce the staff are yet to be adopted.
It has continued with full-fledged works division even after completion of major works. The expense on this division between 2001 and 2006 was Rs 3.51 crore, the CAG report pointed out. Another anomaly cited in the CAG report is though GU has taken possession of 163.02 hectares of land from PWD in May 1992, till 2006 it had not conducted demarcation of boundary land.
GU has also been rapped over transfer of land for convention center and IT park. It neither prepared any land use plan nor did it take any concrete steps to get the land (1.6302 km²) transferred from the state government to the university’s name
While on one hand if GU claims to be hard pressed for funds which are needed to take up more challenging programmes, its infrastructure for distance education created at a cost of 2.15 crore has remained largely unused. This facility was established in 2001, and though infrastructure has the capacity to reach and provide distance education to over 5000 students, the university had not commenced any course under distance education mode.
Goa University has accumulated deficit of university amounting to Rs 7.73 crore. It has not adopted the accrual system of accounting.
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