[Ilugc] News: Umashankar of Elcot laptop fame in trouble
- From: prem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Prem Kurian Philip)
- Date: Fri Jul 23 12:35:50 2010
From: Sivasankar Chander <siva.ilugc@xxxxxxxxx>
Some disturbing news - former Elcot MD Umashankar, who has also
given a talk at ILUG-C some years ago, seems to be in a spot of
trouble:
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_ias-officer-suspended-by-tamil-nadu-government_1413048
There were some earlier reports of lobbying by interested parties
to shunt him out of Elcot some years ago. He's perhaps one of the
few IAS officers around who is comfortable with tech and can
even program competently.
Sad. From what I gather, he lost his scheduled caste status because of
his/family's conversion to Christianity and so lost the eligibility to the
scheduled caste quota.
Also, he made the mistake of going after Maran's TV networks.
Regards,
PK
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