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Showcause Notice from HRD Ministry Resignation from Committee on Research on Elementary Education Article from Indian Express (September 6, 2013) UGC Conflict of Interest Policy Letter to UGC Secretary on April 29, 2013 Letter to UGC Chairman on June 10, 2013 Letter to UGC Chairman (on July 31, 2013) requesting certain items to be placed on the agenda of 49th meeting Emails regarding revision of minutes of 494th Meeting Letter to UGC Chairman (on August 12, 2012) requesting redrafting of minutes or an emergency meeting of the Commission

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ANNEXURE 1: SHOW CAUSE NOTICE FROM H.R.D. MINISTRY (DATED SEPTEMBER 4, 2013)

ANNEXURE 2: RESIGNATION FROM COMMITTEE FOR RESEARCH IN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION From: Yogendra Yadav <yogendra.yadav@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:45:26 +0530 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 6cMuovl-1_KI52MtUL0kOO4Q_kY Message-ID: <CABBv1ByrB2z7XtJFa2Fhb44AfKjX+X9PJ3DWE3+CgW9fxBsP4Q@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: Meeting of the Committee for Research in Elementary Education (CREE). To: EE17 SSA <ssaee17@gmail.com> Cc: khan.farida@gmail.com, jimtharu@rediffmail.com, sardab@csds.in, erudelhi@gmail.com, dsankar@worldbank.org, psarangapani@hotmail.com, sdesai@ncaer.org, anuradhed@gmail.com, amitadhanda@gmail.com, "maninder.edu" <maninder.edu@nic.in> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=f46d0407144ba0ef7a04cd3fe088 Dear Shri Tiwari, A few weeks ago, I had communicated to the Ministry that I would like to step down from all the advisory Committees of the government, given my current political involvement in the anti-corruption movement. This applies to the CREE as well. Could you treat this as my letter of resignation from the Committee for Research in Elementary Education. I am separately sending my resignation from the National Advisory Council for Right to Education. I deeply regret losing this opportunity to work with this wonderful group of academics. Wishing the Committee all the best and mmy apologies, Yours *Yogendra Yadav*, *Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110054 India Office Phone: 23981012 (telefax Lokniti, CSDS), 23942199 (PBX, CSDS)*

On 26 October 2012 21:49, EE17 SSA <ssaee17@gmail.com> wrote:

To, *As per list below:- * 1. Prof. Yogendra Yadav, CSDS, New Delhi, Ph5

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Prof. Farida Khan, JMI, ND, Ph- 9868946414. Prof. Jacob Tharu (Retd.), CIEFL, Hyderabad, Ph- 09391042313 Prof. Sarada Balagopal, CSDS, Delhi, Ph- 9811097039, Ms. Vimala Ramachandran, National Fellow, NUEPA, Dr. Hridakant Dewan, Vidya Bhawan , Udaipur, Ph- 0294-2451815 Dr. Anuradha De, CORD, New Delhi, Sonalde Desai, University of Marland, NCAER, Delhi, Ms. Deepa Sankar, World Bank, New Delhi, Ph- 9811439287

10. Dr. Padma Sarangapani, TISS, Mumbai, Ph- 09740010510, 11. Prof. Amita Dhanda, NALSAR

*Subject:- Meeting of the Committee for Research in Elementary Education (CREE).* Dear Sir/ Madam, I am directed to inform you that the meeting of the *Committee for Research in Elementary Education (CREE)* will be held on 30th October, 2012 at 3.30 PM in the Conference Room No. 112-C at Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi. With regards,

***************** *(A.K. Tewari)

ANNEXURE 3: Article from The Indian Express (September 6, 2013) http://www.indianexpress.com/news/notice-to-yogendra-to-quit-ugc-createsflutter/1165394/

Notice to Yogendra to quit UGC creates flutter

Express News Service : New Delhi, Fri Sep 06 2013, 03:21 hrs

The show cause notice issued on Wednesday by the Pallam Raju-led HRD ministry to psephologist and Aam Aadmi Party member Prof Yogendra Yadav asking why he should not 'retire' as member of the UGC is set to cause a showdown. UGC member and former CIC Prof M M Ansari termed it "unacceptable". Yadav pointed out that the UGC Act does not mention political activity as reason for removal. Yadav has been given 7 days to explain. Ansari told The Indian Express, "...affiliation to a political party is not ground for removal from UGC. So it seems a show cause notice on this ground has malafide intention...." He said Yadav was being targeted. Yadav claimed that in October 2012 when the Aam Aadmi Party was announced, he proposed to resign and consulted the then HRD minister Kapil Sibal's office which advised against it. The then private secretary to Sibal, V Umashanker, said, "Yes, Prof Yadav did discuss the issue and we were of the opinion that he should continue as we felt his presence added considerable value to UGC." The notice to Yadav on September 4 said, he "recently joined a political party as office bearer." UGC sources refuted Yadav was targeted. Yadav alleged problems surfaced after he requested that Delhi University's introduction of the Four Year Undergraduate Programme be placed for consideration at the 493rd meeting of the Commission in May. Yadav said matters came to a head in the July 31 meeting where he wanted to take up several issues and the UGC Chairman brought "a proposal, drafted in haste, to set up an Inter-University Centre on Teacher Education at JN Technical University, Kakinada".

ANNEXURE 4: UGC Policy on Conflict of Interest and Ethics and Code of Conduct for Commission Members (www.ugc.ac.in/pdfnews/0934232_codeconduct230512.pdf)

CODE OF CONDUCT AS ADOPTED BY MEMBERS OF THE UGC

The UGC in its 484th Meeting held on 27th April, 2012 considered the matter regarding framing of Policy on Conflict of Interest and Ethics and Code of Conduct, and adopted the following resolution.

The Commission approved the Policy on Conflict of Interest and Ethics and Code of Conduct for the Commission Members. It was noted that this Code of Conduct is not legally binding, for this is not a Regulation. The Commission Members agreed to adopt and abide by this Code of Conduct on their own volition.

Code of Conduct for Commission Members