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Latest News |
| 19th
Aug 2010 / Times of India / Hyderabad Edition |
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Panel to look into autonomy for central varsities, IITs,
IIMs
MOVE FOR FUNCTIONAL AUTONOMY
New Delhi: The HRD ministry has set up a high-power committee,
under noted legal expert N R Madhava Menon, to come with
a comprehensive policy on the issue of autonomy for higher
educational institutions like central universities, IITs
and IIMs.
The six-member committee, which also has three additional
special invitees, has b e e n asked to rev i ew the state
of institutional autonomy in central universities, IITs
and IIMs in academic governance and financial matters.
The panel will recommend mechanism for norm-based funding
of central educational institutions for development and
maintenance, with an aim to enhance their financial autonomy.
It will examine the decentralisation of autonomy within
central universities, IITs, IIMs and suggest measures
by which institutional autonomy can percolate to governance
structure within the university and to the teacher.
The committee will review the present governance structures
of central universities, IITs, IIMs, and recommend steps
for providing substantive and procedural autonomy to them
vis-a-vis University Grants Commission (UGC), other central
regulatory bodies and the central government.
It will also decide how to foster accountability so that
they can function as public institutions.
The committee consists of Seyed Hasnain, vice-chancellor,
Hyderabad University; Pankaj Chandra, director, IIM, Bangalore;
M S Ananth, director, IIT, Madras; Mihir Choudhary, vice-chancellor,
Tezpur University and Ved Prakash, vice-chairperson, UGC.
Prakash will be the convenor of the committee. While UGC
chairperson S Thorat, AICTE chairperson S S Mantha and
IGNOU vicechancellor V N Rajasekharan Pillai are the special
invitees.
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