Dear Friends,
Honourable Minister for Human Resource Development can play a crucial role in solving the issue of NET June 2012. HRD min clipping UGC’s wings? Under UGC Act, the regulator is bound to follow the ministry's directions but unfortunately, when the victims met
Minister and Minister for State of HRD, they refused to intervene into it.
Minister and Minister for State of HRD, they refused to intervene into it.
Well, a lot of water is passed since then, but even though it is not too late to intervene. Now HRD Ministry has started clipping the wings of UGC. Please have a look at the news below published in Times Of India.
HRD Ministry Clipping UGC's Wings
New Delhi: The UGC never acted as the autonomous watchdog it was supposed to be but now even the pretense of being so is slowly being discarded.
Initiating the mammoth Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan, which will eventually erode UGC’s financial powers, is the latest in a long line of interventions by the HRD ministry in the working of the higher education regulator. The ministry has been clipping the wings of the UGC for long and compromising its autonomy.
Under Section 20 of the UGC Act, the regulator is bound to follow the ministry’s directions on questions of policy relating to national purposes. The section also states that in case of dispute, the ministry’s view will prevail. The HRD ministry has used this section to its advantage by giving orders the commission has to accept.
“This has become a trend. UGC meetings are a mere formality. At times, we are not even informed of decisions,” a UGC member said. However, a ministry official said, “Section 20 orders are mostly sent to maintain academic standards and improve regulations. UGC is autonomous.”
This section was invoked by the HRD ministry recently when there was an impasse on the setting up of an Inter University Centre on teacher education in Kakinada, the LS constituency of HRD minister MM Pallam Raju. When the proposal came to UGC for the first time in May, the it asked the ministry to follow due process. Several members asked how an IUC could be set up in Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University in Kakinada instead of universities that already have prestigious education departments.
But the ministry had made up its mind. UGC set up a committee under A K Sharma that gave its report within a few weeks endorsing Kakinada as the venue for ICU. At the end of July when the UGC met, many members including Yogendra Yadav, since removed, protested against the move. The matter was withdrawn from the agenda of the UGC meeting. By September, the HRD ministry issued orders under Section 20 forcing UGC to accept. On October 1, when the UGC full commission met, the matter was not even brought before the members. ICU is in the process of being established.
Similarly, when HRD ministry wanted a higher education centre in NUEPA it again looked at UGC. The proposal was not received favourably at the commission but the ministry was insistent.
For the full report, log on to www.timesofindia.com
New Delhi: The UGC never acted as the autonomous watchdog it was supposed to be but now even the pretense of being so is slowly being discarded.
Initiating the mammoth Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan, which will eventually erode UGC’s financial powers, is the latest in a long line of interventions by the HRD ministry in the working of the higher education regulator. The ministry has been clipping the wings of the UGC for long and compromising its autonomy.
Under Section 20 of the UGC Act, the regulator is bound to follow the ministry’s directions on questions of policy relating to national purposes. The section also states that in case of dispute, the ministry’s view will prevail. The HRD ministry has used this section to its advantage by giving orders the commission has to accept.
“This has become a trend. UGC meetings are a mere formality. At times, we are not even informed of decisions,” a UGC member said. However, a ministry official said, “Section 20 orders are mostly sent to maintain academic standards and improve regulations. UGC is autonomous.”
This section was invoked by the HRD ministry recently when there was an impasse on the setting up of an Inter University Centre on teacher education in Kakinada, the LS constituency of HRD minister MM Pallam Raju. When the proposal came to UGC for the first time in May, the it asked the ministry to follow due process. Several members asked how an IUC could be set up in Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University in Kakinada instead of universities that already have prestigious education departments.
But the ministry had made up its mind. UGC set up a committee under A K Sharma that gave its report within a few weeks endorsing Kakinada as the venue for ICU. At the end of July when the UGC met, many members including Yogendra Yadav, since removed, protested against the move. The matter was withdrawn from the agenda of the UGC meeting. By September, the HRD ministry issued orders under Section 20 forcing UGC to accept. On October 1, when the UGC full commission met, the matter was not even brought before the members. ICU is in the process of being established.
Similarly, when HRD ministry wanted a higher education centre in NUEPA it again looked at UGC. The proposal was not received favourably at the commission but the ministry was insistent.
For the full report, log on to www.timesofindia.com
Regards,
Yuvi
askyuvi2012@gmail.com
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