Summary:
The university’s circular was passed in the context of suicide of a staff of a private engineering college in Chennai. Among the reasons cited for the suicide was the refusal of the college management to return the original certificates of the victim to allow him to take up another lucrative career option. The issue was in the limelight after the suicide of T Vasanthavannan, who was working as an assistant professor in a private engineering college in the city. With declining demand for engineering seats, many private engineering managements are fund-crunched. Chandru said that he himself had disposed of several cases after asking institutions to return the faculty’s original certificates and not harass them..