new delhi the alumni and faculty of indian institute of technology kharagpur say they are done waiting parthapratimchakrabarti chosen by a hrd ministryconstituted search committee for the position of director iitkharagpur over a year ago is yet to take charge as he awaits clearance by central vigilance commission cvc following a hunger strike by students and faculty members at kharagpur the alumni associations chapters in delhi kolkata and bangalore are taking their protest outside the campus about 1200 of iitkharagpurs alumni based in delhi took part in a silent march at jantarmantar on saturdaythe institute has been without a fulltime director for over a year and is suffering because action cant be taken and decisions cant be made on a number of important programmes said arjunmalhotra iitkharagpur alumnus and one of the founders of hcl technologies he added that he has filed as many as 20 rtis and received replies from both mhrd as well as iit but not from the cvc the convocation is on july 29 and the minister will be there we are assuming thatll be the impetus to try and get this cleared but if that doesnt happen well have to work out how to continue the agitation said malhotra after saturdays march alumni members plan to submit petitions to the president also visitor of iitkharagpur prime minister hrd minister secretary mhrd and the lieutenant governor of delhi malhotra argues that leaving iitkharagpur without a director is tantamount to treason it is taking a worldclass institution and making sure it loses some of its shine the alumni want to know why the cvc is withholding judgment on the matter and not clearing chakrabarti for promotion charkrabarti as the dean of sponsored research and industrial consultancy sric at iit kharagpur had become embroiled in a controversy involving a project commissioned to iit kharagpur by coal india an investigation by the central bureau of investigation was initiated and by the end chakrabarti was let off with a minor penalty the alumni have also furnished a 2007 letter from the cbi to director iitkharagpur which says the enquiry report would not be cited to be relied upon documents in the departmental enquiries chakravarty was also cleared by the iit kharagpurs board of governors bog