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Watve told TOI that he had officially resigned two days ago. “Whether the institute objects to the resignation or not remains to be seen. I am not on notice for the mandatory three-month period,” he said. The allegations made by Prof.
Watve were raised, not while he was the chairperson, but after he expressed the intent to resign from the institute.”“The institute is unaware of illegal tree felling on campus and does not release untreated sewage,” it added. On Tuesday, Watve put up a note on his social media account making public his resignation.IISER, meanwhile, has released an e-mail statement: “The landscape committee was constituted in November 2017 with Prof.
Watve as the chairperson with the goal of increasing the vegetation cover on the IISER Pune campus and maintaining and protecting the existing green cover..