Fatehgarh Sahib, April 17, 2018: Bir Devinder Singh former Deputy Speaker cum former President of student's union of Mata Gujri College Fatehgarh Sahib, while addressing the media persons here today demanded that all the financial transactions and appointments, whether on ad-hoc basis or regular, made by Dr. Jatinder Singh Sidhu as Principal Mata Gujri collage, Fatehgarh Sahib, during his entire tenure must be looked into with clinical precision. And if financial and administrative irregularity are discovered and found to be true as alleged than he must face severe punitive action including the recovery of embezzled funds with interest and the legal punitive action under the relevant provisions of Cr.P.C.
He said that as curious reports are doing the rounds in the circle of Mata Gujri Collage, approximately 60 to 70 non-teaching employees and members of the teaching faculty of Mata Gujri Collage are drawing salaries; without having any statutory appointment letter issued to them since 2009 till date and ironically the package of their salaries varies from person to person, as per the whims and fancies of the then Principal Dr. Jatinder Singh Sidhu.
He said that a new boy’s hostel is under construction across the Railway line at Fatehgarh Sahib without obtaining the mandatory clearance for the change of the land use (CLU) from PUDA or GMADA hence the construction of the hostel is illegal, besides no tendering procedure was followed to allot the works to the contractor to ensure transparency in spending the funds of the collage worth crores of rupees. So the huge bungling in the construction work of the collage is not ruled out.
It is also learnt that Dr. Jatinder Singh Sidhu has retired from the Government service with entitlement of full pension, and has also been drawing full salary from Mata Gujri Collage (covered under 95 % government grant from the DPI collages) and it is pertinent to mention here that he has also has been drawing full Government pension simultaneously, which is a gross financial irregularity, that require a thorough probe by the office of the Accountant General and the DPI (Collages) Punjab, as well.
All these obtrusive irregularity and blatant violation of the norms laid down by the Government, mentioned as above certainly entails a thorough probe by the SGPC. I’m also addressing a separate communications to the Gurdwara Judicial Commission, Punjab Government and AG Punjab to probe the matter which pertains to their domains. In view of the dazzling discrepant conduct of Dr. Jatinder Singh Sidhu as Principal Mata Gujri Collage, I vehemently demand from the SGPC, his immediate removal as Director Education of SGPC before he smashes up the dignity and grandeur of the minority Sikh institutions and commits more frauds with the educational institutions run by the SGPC.