vadodara m s university will neither deny nor admit daughter of vadodaras deputy collector in its faculty of technology and engineering fte a major controversy had surfaced earlier this week after the state government recommended that daughter of vadodaras deputy collector s p muniya presently studying at nirma university be transferred to fte in thirdyear computer engineering the university had drawn flak for entertaining the transfer request as the present rules do not allow transfer of any student from one institute to another with this case being one of transfer from a private university to a publiclyfunded university but the committee that university had formed with fte dean professor a n misra as convener has recommended that the case be referred to equivalence committee since quite some time the equivalence committee does not exist in the university despite it being a statutory requirement and msu officials are in no mood to form such equivalence committee for this particular case gujarats education department had issued the letter recommending the girl students transfer to fte through the commissioner of technical education without even mentioning the grounds on which the girls transfer from nirma university to msu should be done midway after receiving the letter msu had formed a committee under misra which returned the ball in universitys court recommending that while the equivalence committee should submit its recommendation on whether the syllabi of nirma university and fte are same the girl student should also produce a valid reason behind seeking such migration interestingly after the case turned controversial muniya has claimed that his daughter is seeking transfer on health grounds there are hundreds of students who would want to get transfer from selffinanced collegesinstitutes to publiclyfunded universitiesinstitutes because of cheaper fee structure in public institutes or reasons to stay along with their families we cannot entertain such requests as it will open up a pandoras box for us a university official told toi adding that the state governments letter will not be tabled before msus syndicate members who are meeting on august 31 educationists have pointed out that after people holding high positions were found misusing the transfer policy in professional courses gujarat governor had issued a directive banning any transfer of students in such professional courses in 2002