With
universities failing to provide timely and proper details required by the All
India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) for four years since this exercise
began, the Human Resource Development Ministry has decided to use its financial
control to make them fall in line. And, has also empowered itself to take
punitive action.
Universities
— the Central, the State and deemed-to-be under Section 3 of the University
Grants Commission (UGC) Act, 1956 — have been warned that they could face a 25
per cent cut in grant-in-aid if they failed to upload the necessary information
required by AISHE in time. Since such warnings in the past have fallen on deaf
ears, the Ministry in June-end notified a fresh set of rules — The UGC
(Furnishing of Information by Universities) Rules 2015 — to give the commission
more teeth in dealing with non-compliance.
Punitive action
Apart
from cutting grant-in-aid, the UGC and, even the Ministry, is now empowered to
take punitive action for not just non-compliance, but also providing inaccurate
or wrong data.
The
details that universities are expected to furnish include their academic
schedule, student and faculty strength, admission parameters, facilities
provided, annual accounts, courses, vacancies and foreign collaborations.
Though
the Ministry’s decision to wield the stick has raised eyebrows in the
university eco-system, UGC member M.M. Ansari said only a third of the
universities would be covered under the notification.
Source | The Hindu | 8 August 2015
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