He was close to the the-then HRD Minister Murali Manohar Joshi who made him Officer on Special Duty and then Director of Indian Institute of Information Technology at Allahabad. He has no expertise in information technology, neither he is expert on computer science. These kinds of institutes such as IITs or IIITs must have a specialist as the leader and we have no dearth of such experts in India or abroad. People tell he used to supply briefcases to Dr. Joshi before and after elections. Most of the staff in HIS institute is from his locality and from family members of ministers men. Examples now. His peons Sankar and Shambhu were nephew of Mr. Upadhyay the PA of Joshiji. His own nephew Kanchan Tiwari and son of his brother in law Brijesh hold two important posts. Jyoti Upadhyay daughter in law of Mr. Upadhyay, PA of Joshiji got RA post just after completing her M.Sc. He placed one lady Pallavi Dixit with a PhD in inorganic chemistry in the Indo Russian Center of Biotechnology. Is there any relation of her subject with biotechnology. She is daughter in law of Prof. Dixit a Joshi man again. He recruited Rahul Gupta in the institute. He is son of Prof. AK Gupta, a member of the Governing Body of IIITA. All the talented staff who joined at IIITA from India and abroad left due to his torture [Ranjan, Vyas, Manish etc.]. Only three yes-men are left. After the change of Ministry in Delhi he has recruited the daughter of Mr. Pramod Tiwari, local congress MP. Nobody understands why th
