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The Union Ministry for Human Resource Development has appointed a task force to examine applications from institutions that need to take corrective measures to satisfy the deemed university status.
The members of the task force are P.N. Tandon, Professor, AIIMS, New Delhi; Goverdhan Mehta, National Research Professor, University of Hyderabad; M. Anandakrishnan, Chairman, IIT Kanpur; and Mrinal Miri, former Vice Chancellor, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong.
Some of the ‘deemed-to-be-universities’ under the scanner are claiming that they have overcome the flaws and want the deemed status. The task force will also look into these claims.
The entire process of assessment shall be video-recorded live and the findings of the task force shall be put in the public domain on the Ministry’s website (http://education.nic.in) in addition to informing the applicants individually.
The Central Government had appointed an expert committee in June 2009 after the new Minister of Human Resource Development, Kapil Sibal, came into power, to review the functioning of ‘deemed-to-be-universities’ and ensure that their deemed status was justified. The Review Committee had submitted its report to the Government in October 2009.
After assessing the ‘deemed-to-be-universities’, the Committee had categorised 44 institutions as institutions deficient in some aspects. These institutions were given a time span of three years to transit into the category of ‘institutions satisfying most of the criteria for the deemed university status’. These institutions have not been allowed to work on their expansion plans as the government will give a go ahead only after the institutions overcome their flaws.
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Murli M Tue, 2011-03-01 05:48
The task force constituted for reviewing the status of Deemed Universities seems missing representation from Deemed University Professors and Professors from Private Colleges and Universities. While Professors from IIT and AIIMS are highly respectable and competent, they are unaware of the ground realities faced by the Private Colleges and Universities. The deemed universities run on a approximate budget of Rs 30 crores which have to be earned from the fees collected from the students, whereas each lab of IIT or AIIMS have budget of 30 crores. To received crores of grants - the professors from IIT and AIIMS simply have to submit an application to the MHRD and the money is sanctioned. But Private colleges and Universities have to earn that money from teaching thousands of students while competing with hundreds of other colleges and Universities. Also, unaware to 99.9% of the population is the way most government colleges and Govt Universities are run - they have no inspection from MHRD or AICTE and thats why they dont follow any of the norms, they dont have sufficient teachers to teach. Also once a teachers gets a safe Govt Job, they are NOT interested to teach sincerely. Most newspapers and inspection teams only target Private bodies. As for the norms of M.Tech and PhD candidates - nowadays those students who dont get jobs after B.Tech finish their M.Tech and PhD and are appointed as teachers in colleges. In most colleges (both govt and private) there is mass copying - so getting M.Tech and PhD degrees is very very easy. Instead of having norms on the quantity of teachers and infrastructure - the real checks should be on the results of the students. Specially results in placements and results in unbiased examinations like GATE and CAT/MAT.
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