Tuesday 25 December 2018

Mumbai University Spends Rupees 7.44 lacs on Senate Election

Mumbai University has spent Rupees 7.44 lacs on election of 10 registered graduate candidates for Senate body election as per information provided to RTI activist Anil Galgali. Of this Rupees 5.65 lacs has been shown as expenses towards travel and advertisement.

Anil Galgali by his RTI application dated 27 March, 2018, had asked Mumbai University to provide details of all expenses incurred towards election of 10 registered graduates for its Senate committee. It has taken almost nine months to get a reply to his query.

Rajendra Ambawade Deputy Vice Chancellor of the Finance and Accounts department of Mumbai University has informed Anil Galgali that election of 10 registered graduates to Senate Committee has cost 7 lac 44 thousand 499 rupees. Out if this maximum amount of Rupees 3 lac 22 thousand 89 has been spent on travel. Rupees 2 lac 43 thousand  232  has been spent on advertising. Rupees 68 thousand 810 for software, refilling of toner cost 16 thousand 638 rupees, decorations cost 20 thousand 500 rupees, training and vote counting costed  3 thousand 330 rupees and 69 thousand 990 rupees hospitality respectively.

Anil Galgali has demanded that expenses incurred on Senate committee elections should be made public on the University website and he has written a letter demanding the same to Chancellor of the University Shri Vidyasagar Rao and Vice Chancellor Dr. Suhas Pednekar

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