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Fate of 125 Deemed Varsities In Government And Private Sectors Hangs In BalanceBy ugesh sarkar, Section Education
The fate of 125 deemed universities in government and private sectors hangs in a balance, with the UGC all set to conduct the first-ever thorough review of their functioning and delivery, following HRD ministry's order in this regard. The review will take three months.
Of these, 90 universities are privately managed; the rest are in public domain. The most striking part of the story is that of the 125 institutions in questions, 44.8 per cent, i.e. 56 institutions were notified as deemed only in the last five years of the UPA rule when Arjun Singh was HRD minister. As many as 47 of the 90 private institutions were passed off as deemed in these five years; 31 of them in haste in the last two years of the former minister's term. Come to think of it, the first university to be granted deemed status in India was the Indian Council for Agricultural Research way back in 1958. Enquiries made by The Tribune today further revealed that Tamil Nadu has the highest number -- at 27 -- of private universities to have been granted deemed status by the government. Only two government institutes in this state have been recognised as deemed. Also in this category are Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Sri Ramachandra Medical College, Chennai, whose constituent colleges were recently found demanding capitation fee from students. Tamil Nadu is followed by Maharashtra and Karnataka, which have 16 and 12 private deemed varsities, respectively. New Delhi with 11; Uttar Pradesh with 10 and Rajasthan with 7 deemed universities come next. Haryana and Punjab, respectively, have only 5 and 3 such varsities to be monitored. Government sector deemed institutes in Haryana include National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal and National Brain Research Centre, Gurgaon. In Punjab, PEC, Chandigarh, Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Sangrur and Thapar Institute of Engineering, Patiala will be reviewed. Source: The Tribune Fate of 125 deemed varsities hangs in balance Click On "Full Story" For More....
Government's seriousness in stemming the rot of low-quality education and arbitrary admission structures in several recognised universities is evident from the fact that the HRD ministry is planning to set up its own enquiry team, parallel to the UGC, to double-check the efficacy of the existing deemed institutions and see if they really deserved the status they got.
On June 5, while ordering the review of such varsities, HRD minister Kapil Sibal put on hold all pending proposals for grant of deemed status. These included five new proposals; 12 proposals cleared by the UGC for recognition and two proposals approved by former HRD minister Arjun Singh, but not yet notified. The latter have also been kept in abeyance. Interestingly, among the oldest deemed universities to go under government scanner would be the Indian Council for Agricultural Research, New Delhi (recognised way back in 1958), the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad (notified as deemed in 1967) and the School of Architecture and Planning (named deemed in 1979). The oldest private deemed university in India was the Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya, Haridwar (notified as deemed in 1962) and Gujarat Vidyapeeth (notified in 1963). All these institutions will also be reviewed.
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