HYDERABAD: The enduring 160-year-old schooling establishment in Secunderabad, Mahbub Faculty Prime College, which was once shaped to impart high quality and reasonably priced schooling to economically backward and poorer sections, is now mired in a lot of controversies.

Whilst the establishment is engaged for a while now in a felony fight for its due percentage of income from sister establishments, which it had promoted up to now few years, an influence fight amongst individuals of its managing committees, purportedly with a watch on high land and homes owned via the college, has additional added to its woes.

 

In an sudden and unexpected building, the prevailing managing committee, with its four-year tenure, which was once prolonged until November 2023 (as consistent with data of the Place of business of Registrar of Societies), was once arbitrarily and unilaterally dissolved, with out following right kind procedures, on April 4, 2022.

A brand new frame was once constituted post-haste, with even daily banking operations impulsively taken keep an eye on via the newly “elected” office-bearers. A number of other people related to the establishments alleged that it was once a “pre-planned conspiracy”.

 

Anger is brewing amongst electorate, together with former scholars. Stunned via unsavoury happenings of their Alma Mater, former scholars made up our minds to convene a different normal frame in their affiliation to chalk out quite a lot of remedial measures, with the slogan ‘Save Mahbub Faculty’.

Alumni are making plans to make representations to involved government within the govt and management to push their case.

Mahbub Faculty was once shaped in 1862 to cater to the training wishes of scholars belonging to poorer sections. P. Somasundaram Mudaliar, a famend philanthropist, used his proximity with Sir Salar Jung and different nobles to arrange a faculty known as Anglo Vernacular College. With beneficiant contributions and donations from plenty of distinguished electorate together with Sir Salar Jung and Mir Mahbub Ali Khan Bahadur. Numerous constructions got here up within the just about 10 acres of land to house huge choice of scholars looking for admission. The varsity was once renamed Mahbub Faculty to commemorate Hyderabad Nizam’s accession to throne.

 

Such was once the celebrity of Mahbub Faculty, Swami Vivekananda visited and addressed a public assembly on February 13, 1893 prior to leaving for the United States, the place he made the well-known speech on the Parliament of Religions.

The varsity produced an unlimited choice of distinguished personalities in several fields, together with former Leader of Indian Army Admiral Ramdas Katari, IAS Officials like Maj. N.Ok. Guruswamy, Mohan Kanda, IPS Officials like S. Anandram and A. Venkat Rao, Air Marshal P. Jai Kumar and Air Marshal Mianek B. Madan, Capt. N. Ashok Kumar, who was once martyred in 1971 warfare in opposition to East Pakistan, sports activities personalities like Triple Olympian (Hockey) Mukesh Kumar, cricketer M. L. Jaisimha, tennis superstar S.P. Misra, movie director Shyam Benegal and economist Mohan Guruswamy.

 

Through the years, the varsity established a number of establishments underneath its umbrella together with the Centenary College, (on land equipped via Defence government close to Parade Grounds). The control entered into an settlement in 2015 with personal events to return out of a deep monetary disaster, following alleged misuse of price range of SVIT Engineering Faculty to the track of just about Rs 15 crore.

Enquiries published that the-then control of Mahbub Faculty entered into an settlement with the Venkat Narayana Schooling Society (VNES) in 2015, a society floated via Dr Ok. Anil Kumar.

 

Anil Kumar introduced Dr. Rev. Ok.V.Ok. Rao for goal of financing operations of each SVIT and Bolton College and transparent pending liabilities in 2019. Issues for Mahbub Faculty started with VNES no longer adhering to the settlement of paying 50 consistent with cent of income generated from SVIT and Bolton College.

To steer clear of bills, IT statements have been allegedly fudged, which in the long run ended in notices being served to Mahbub Faculty.

Variations cropped up between Dr Anil Kumar and Ok.V.Ok. Rao over monetary issues, resulting in submitting of circumstances. Dr Kumar, in a letter addressed to the varsity on November 8, 2021, made critical allegations in opposition to Rao, accusing him of “unauthorised switch of enormous quantities from the financial institution accounts of SVIT and Bolton College”.

 

Therefore, Dr Kumar was once forced to compromise with Rao. The office-bearers of provide managing committee changed into goal of wrath of Dr. Kumar, submit which a coup was once enacted to dislodge present workplace bearers with out following right kind procedures. Outdated scholars at the moment are not easy a radical inquiry via the CBI or ED to avoid wasting Mahbub Faculty.

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