nagpur acting on a series of toi reports on how nagpur universitys evaluators failed to return excess funds related to examination the administration of vasantrao naik government arts and social sciences vngass institute formerly morris college has sought explanation from its senior lecturer pramod lakheon august 9 toi first exposed how nu recovered a whopping rs5914 lakh from lakhe who failed to repay advance taken for examination work for over five years he was chief of its spot valuation centre at exam section in 2011 winter and 2012 summer examinations where he had taken certain amount from nu towards advance but failed to return it it was only after nu issued ultimatum to lakhe and others that they were forced to return the amountsthe letter dated august 14 seeking explanation from lakhe was written by director sunetra maharaj patil while referring toi report of august 9 she asked the lecturer to come up with a clarification regarding contents published in the report within a weekwe sought explanation from him lakhe but i cant speak at the moment as i am boarding a bus to nagpur she told toi before abruptly ending the conversation later her mobile was out of reachcollege officials disclosed that she had gone on leave to nashik and was supposed to rejoin this week she had handed over her charge to lakhe on the basis of his senioritylakhe confirmed that he submitted his detailed explanation to the director obviously i denied all those allegations levelled against me in the toi report it was absolutely not my fault as nu failed to conduct audit for years in fact i wasnt alone in this entire affair i was unnecessarily targeted by some vested interests lakhe told toihe explained that those involved in the examination work were always granted advance by the university so that exam work shouldnt be hampered an audit of entire expenditure is conducted and any excess amount with those involved in the exam work is returned we were continuously busy with winter and summer exams so couldnt really got time to conduct the audit lakhe saidthe entire system is under huge burden of evaluating over five to six lakh answer sheets which may have led to further delay in conducting audit he addedtoi had also raised the issue of recovery of interest received by lecturers on keeping huge amounts with them for nearly six yearsprovc pramod yeole reiterated that the process to calculate and recover interests from evaluators would commence after approval of nus finance committee the panel headed by vc sp kane would meet soon to discuss the modalities it comprises provc finance and accounts officer and two experts from outside the university he said