shimla the union ministry of education department of higher education terminated the services of director of national institute of technology nit in hamirpur himachal pradesh with immediate effect after complaints of irregularities professor vinod yadava had joined nit hamirpur as its director on march 22 2018 on deputation from motilal nehru national institute of technology in allahabad uttar pradesh up where he was professor in the department of mechanical engineering in his place professor lalit awasthi director of dr b r ambedkar national institute of technology jalandhar has been given additional charge of nit hamirpur till further ordersnotification issued by the union ministry of education on saturday stated that a committee was constituted on july 13 this year to inquire into the state of affairs of the nit hamirpur and to hold inquiries in various complaints received against the functioning of the institutethe report of the said committee which found that there is certainly prima facie case against the director of the institute has been accepted by the competent authority in accordance with the provisions of the nitser act 2007 it addednotification said in exercise of the powers conferred by section 171 of the nitser act 2007 the visitor president of india also being the appointing authority has approved for termination of services of professor yadavaissue of alleged irregularities especially in the appointments of teaching staff at nit hamirpur was first raised by the congress mla from sujapur rajender rana last year it was rana who had made a written complaint to prime minister narendra modi union education minister ramesh pokhriyal and professor c shekhar chairman of board of governors nit hamirpur in julywhile speaking to toi rana said on august 8 2018 contractual appointment of assistant professor was advertised however professor yadava issued the regular appointments to all 31 selected candidates with probation period of one year whereas according to rules probation period is only to be mentioned in the appointment letter of regular facultyhe said in the mathematics and scientific computing departments five candidates were appointed of which four belonged to up and obc category and out of those four two belonged to yadav community he said in the recruitment process through advertisement for regular position issued on august 23 2018 many non performers having almost zero research since last promotion internal candidates were promotedrana said fir should be registered against him for misusing the official position and recoveries should also be made from him for causing financial losses to the institution