Rejecting claims of Nita Ambani joining Banaras Hindu University (BHU) as a visiting faculty, Reliance Industries on Wednesday said that Ambani has not received an invitation from BHU.
"Reports that Nita Ambani will be a visiting lecturer at Banaras Hindu University (BHU) are fake. She hasn't received an invitation from BHU," RIL said.
The company's statement came a day after several university students protested against the so-called "appointment" outside the Vice Chancellor's residence. Students staged a protest outside VC’s residence demanding that the university should not be privatised.
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To pacify the protesting students the top officials of the University, including the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, came to the protest site and to convince the students, the dean said that no such decision has been finalised yet. VC Rakesh Bhatnagar too came out to discuss the matter with the students and assured them that no such decision has been taken.
Earlier media reports claimed that Neta Ambani has been proposed to join BHU as a visiting professor as a part of the university’s Centre for Women Development and Studies to help improve the living standard of women from the Purvanchal area of Uttar Pradesh.