Nagpur University's public relations officer's (PRO) post, which remained in limelight for all the wrong reasons due to criticism from media as well as NU bosses, became vacant from Wednesday, highly-placed sources revealed.
In a major overhaul in NU's administrative set-up, the authorities had promoted four senior officers of assistant registrar's level. Among them was PRO Sanjay Bahekar who faced the wrath from NU bosses for his apparent failure to avoid negative reports emerging in media. The media too was critical of him as he failed to provide relevant information. 'No comments' was his favourite response to any query.
Sources said Bahekar, who was entrusted with the additional charge of PRO section in 2007, was disinterested in taking it up as he was already burdened with full-time charges of NU's general administration department (GAD) and also of publication section.
Though Bahekar confirmed the promotion news and declined to comment as usual, sources disclosed that he had already informed his seniors of relieving him of the charge. An unwell registrar Mahesh Yenkie was not available for comments.
Along with Bahekar, who was elevated as deputy registrar (pre-exam), Anil Hirekhan, FK Bhagat and Sanjay Chimalwar were also promoted to NU's development, academic and college sections, respectively. While Hirekhan and Chimalwar were posted with the exam section, Bhagat was looking after college section earlier.
With the university bereft of a PRO, students now have no place to go for guidance. The Nagpur University has never appointed a fulltime person in the post.
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