"Education system of the country was being revamped to make India a knowledge power by 2020" - Kapil Sibal. But with the present education system and policies of UGC in granting deemed status to universities, Sibal's words appear like mirage to me.
Indians are pioneers in educational fields, be it astronomy, science or medicine. But , even after these many years, we dont have a world class university where studs from other countries love to study. I dont dream to have a university like MIT, stanford or Harvard, But i want to have universities that dont corrupt in imparting knowledge. Months ago, Tandon review committee was asked to submit report on the state of existing deemed-to-be universities. The report was shocking as it reported that 44 of 130 universities have been recommended to be shut. As per the Tandon report, HRD has asked SC, to take necessary action against those universities.
Tandon committee has seperated the existing deemed-to-be universities into 3 levels.
In that only 38 have justified their presence as deemed university. All the other universities didnt have proper management structure, facilities, syllabus and infrastructure. They seemed to have unrelated course programmes and allocated more no of seats than they are allowed to have. Many universities have approved distant education without getting proper permission from Distant education council of India. The committee has also put 44 other unversities under probation period for 3 years. They are asked to improve their academic results , else they would be labelled affiliated colleges under the state gvnt universities.
There is no idea how UGC has granted permision to these universities which are below par level to attain such status. Education today has become more like a commodity in a market which can be sold to those who have power and money.
Out of the 44 which are to be scraped from deemed-to-be status, 19 are from TamilNadu. It seems like around 2 lakh students are studying in these 44 universities. If the status is removed from these universities, all those students have to be moved to other affiliated colleges in their state universities.
It seems like no educational improvement is in sight with these corrupt commissions and authorities. Bold decisions like university shut down has to be taken. In the period 2000 -2010 around 20 universities have gained deemed-to be-status. Its totally useless in increasing the university merely in numbers without improving the standards. Strict policies in granting the university status has to be implemented to maintain the standards. More has to be done in order to improve the educational system of India. Th foremost thing is, granting power only to those institutions that are really into imparting knowledge. If found, increasing the seats exponentially without proper permission, their university status has to scrapped.
The government should look into UGC draft regulations and alter them necessarily. I wish this down-trodden path from Deemed to affiliated will never happen again in our system.
its is all money dude...we need tall leaders like Indira to lead the nation...I recently read a green peace article that blasted the central government for selling us off to US nuclear companies. By the planned law the nuclear companies would be limited to pay only 2000 crores as damage when an explosion happens in their plant in India. Even if lakhs of us die the company can happily give 2000 crores and continue its business.
ReplyDeleteGod plz save our country. Like some one sai "Indha naadum naatu makkalum nasamai pogattum"
Someone illai da...P S Veerappa in UthamaPuthiran :) and deemed univs are "DOOMED" universities
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