UGC passes rules for 20 world-class institutions
It also approved a proposal to encourage research on the life and work of BJP ideologue Deen Dayal Upadhyay.
THE UNIVERSITY Grants Commission (UGC) on
Wednesday passed a new set of regulations to set up 20 world-class institutions
and agreed to review the status of the deemed universities placed in ‘Category
B’ by HRD Ministry’s Tandon Committee in 2009.
It also approved a proposal to encourage
research on the life and work of BJP ideologue Deen Dayal Upadhyay.
Universities, from now on, can set up a research Chair named after him.
The Tandon panel was set up by former HRD
minister Kapil Sibal after the quality of the then 126 deemed universities was
questioned. It had found only 38 deemed universities worthy of the tag and they
were placed in Category ‘A’. Forty-four were found to be deficient on many
counts and placed in Category ‘B’ and 44 were termed unworthy and placed in
Category ‘C’.
The Ministry last month wrote to UGC, asking
it to start inspection of the Category ‘B’ institutions. This was discussed at
a meeting on Wednesday. “Although the Category B institutions weren’t stripped
of their deemed university tag, the government had forbidden any expansion of
these universities… If these institutions are no longer found to be deficient
then UGC can lift the embargo on expansion,” said a source.
The UGC also approved regulations aimed at
creating an enabling architecture for 10 public and 10 private institutions to
emerge as world-class institutions. It passed regulations for the 10 private
‘Institutions of Eminence’ and a set of guidelines for 10 public ‘Institutions
of Eminence’. The Institutions of Eminence will have greater autonomy compared
to other higher education institutions.
Source | Indian Express | 23 February 2017
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