CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu government has strongly opposed the draft Bill on Higher Education Commission of India, which might repeal University Grants Commission Act.
In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday, leader minister Edappadi Okay Palaniswami said the present establishment of University Grants Commission could be persisted. “The Tamil Nadu government is of the view that the prevailing institutional arrangement of the UGC with both regulatory and financial powers is functioning well and that there is no need to disband the UGC and replace it with Higher Education Commission of India with simplest regulatory powers,” the CM said.
The Union ministry of human useful resource building has prepared the draft Bill and sought suggestions from the stakeholders recently.
TN government has sturdy reservations and apprehensions over draft Bill, because it permits monetary powers to be transferred to ministry, Centre or every other frame. “Our experience of sanction of price range objectively according to merits to Tamil Nadu has no longer been very certain via more than a few ministries of presidency of India. Further, if this monetary energy is taken over via ministry, we apprehend that the investment development would alternate from 100% investment to 60:40 ratio between Centre and state,” Palaniswami said.
The provide gadget -- UGC entrusted with the duties of keeping up, tracking and making improvements to the factors of educating and analysis in upper educational institutions and in addition with the ability of sanctioning price range under more than a few schemes -- were in vogue since 1956, with none proceedings.
The CM said the UGC had required capability for goal evaluation of the proposals received and sanction price range in a clear manner. The monetary powers are an extra enabling mechanism for UGC to verify implementation of its suggestions.
In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday, leader minister Edappadi Okay Palaniswami said the present establishment of University Grants Commission could be persisted. “The Tamil Nadu government is of the view that the prevailing institutional arrangement of the UGC with both regulatory and financial powers is functioning well and that there is no need to disband the UGC and replace it with Higher Education Commission of India with simplest regulatory powers,” the CM said.
The Union ministry of human useful resource building has prepared the draft Bill and sought suggestions from the stakeholders recently.
TN government has sturdy reservations and apprehensions over draft Bill, because it permits monetary powers to be transferred to ministry, Centre or every other frame. “Our experience of sanction of price range objectively according to merits to Tamil Nadu has no longer been very certain via more than a few ministries of presidency of India. Further, if this monetary energy is taken over via ministry, we apprehend that the investment development would alternate from 100% investment to 60:40 ratio between Centre and state,” Palaniswami said.
The provide gadget -- UGC entrusted with the duties of keeping up, tracking and making improvements to the factors of educating and analysis in upper educational institutions and in addition with the ability of sanctioning price range under more than a few schemes -- were in vogue since 1956, with none proceedings.
The CM said the UGC had required capability for goal evaluation of the proposals received and sanction price range in a clear manner. The monetary powers are an extra enabling mechanism for UGC to verify implementation of its suggestions.
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