Hello,
Here’s one story that took us months of digging through recruitment screening lists, dissent notes, and RTI replies. Case by case, my colleague Alok Rajput found, how JNU, India’s second-ranked university, has been quietly rigging its own faculty hiring.
The people meant to catch this were the university’s own credential-verification body, the IQAC. Instead, we found it doing the opposite. They were re-adding candidates who’d been rejected by screening committees, and getting them hired anyway. We found at least seven cases. Every single one got the job.
Some of these candidates didn’t even meet the basic experience or pay-scale requirements the UGC lays down. This happened even as professors who are also elected members of JNU’s Executive Council wrote dissent letters, repeatedly. They were ignored every time.
Why does this matter beyond JNU’s gates? Because public universities are where public money, public trust, and public purpose are supposed to meet. When hiring at a premier university gets quietly manipulated, it isn’t just an internal mess. It shapes who gets to teach, whose research gets supervised, and eventually, what gets taught to the next generation of students. India has just seen the Gen Z ‘cockroach’ protests over exactly these questions, of fairness, access, and who gets to belong on these campuses.
Read the full investigation here: Recruitment Scam at JNU Unearthed