nagpur students are the nucleus of any educational organization but for a long time nagpur university has been ignoring this crucial component while making its policies and taking decisions be it the delay in announcing a reexam for the leaked bcca paper or not being able to conduct phd entrance exam pet smoothly students have always been at the receiving end of nus decision making blunders nus statutory members attributed this to vice chancellor vilas sapkal and his teams failure and accused them of sidelining the students interest for their own whims and fancies wednesdays mishandling of pet owing to technical glitches is a classic example of mismanagement prevailing in the university this happened at nu campus which does not even have a generator since the university top brass cited a lack of funds to purchase a new one the members accused nu administration of double standards and pointed out the purchase of a luxury sedan worth rs 16 lakh by sapkal by using special powers granted to him under maharashtra universities act 1994 the purchase of skoda and one more vehicle for board of college and university director bcud arvind chaudhary came even as nu was going through a severe financial crunch and had no money to repair various hostels which were in a dilapidated condition nu pro prashant mohite was unavailable for comments on the issue toi had first raised this issue on april 14 after which members had strongly flayed sapkal during the management council meeting even students organizations had criticised him for splurging on luxury vehicles while ignoring demands of the students sapkal had then dropped plans to purchase the vehicle but the company refused to refund the amount forcing the university to buy the vehicle furious members told toi that lack of power backup had resulted in embarrassment more than once even during the senate meeting attended by mlas like devendra fadnavis and sq zama there was a power failure that left nu red faced top officials have failed to address these technical snags due to cash crunch but there are many other issues as well the members claimed citing the example of boys hostel near law college square members said all of the buildings were in a pathetic condition with repairs not having been done since years when the university cannot afford to provide a minimum standard of living to its hostel students how can the top officials justify the purchase of a luxury car for the vc despite the old car being in good condition they asked