HRD Ministry sets target for next 100 days
NEW DELHI: A scheme for providing interest subsidy to non-creamy layer students on educational loans and introduction of a bill to regulate foreign educational institutions in India are among the targets the HRD Ministry has set for the next 100 days.
In response to the 100-day timeline set by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the HRD Ministry has prepared a 100-day activity plan that involves establishing educational tribunals in institutions for settling disputes between the staff and authorities.
"We have prepared the Activity Plan for next 100 days as per the timeline fixed by the Prime Minister. The targets are of immense importance for the growth of education," a senior ministry official told PTI.
The ministry also aims to establish autonomous State Higher Education Councils in all states with the support of University Grants Commission (UGC), he said.
At present, a few states do not have such councils which coordinate between universities and institutions within a state and raise their issues before the government.
Besides, there is plan to sanction 100 new women's hostels in higher educational institutions and sanction 10 new National Institutes of Technologies in unserved states in the next 100 days.
The government will also introduce academic reforms in educational institutions. These reforms include semester system, credit transfer and revision of curriculum. The UGC has prepared a guideline on academic reforms which has been circulated to the universities for follow-up.
The government hopes to implement a new scheme to give education loans to economically backward and meritorious students at subsidized interest rate.
The scheme, which is waiting the approval of Cabinet, is intended to provide the benefits to non-creamy layer students for professional courses.
It will be an add-on scheme to the existing higher education loan program. An estimated Rs 4000 crore will be given to the needy students during the 11th Plan period under this scheme.
The HRD Ministry is keen to introduce Foreign Educational Institutions (Regulation of Entry and Operations, Maintenance of Quality and Prevention of Commercialization) Bill in the Parliament.
The Bill got the Cabinet's nod in February 2007 and was being delayed.
The Bill seeks to regulate the entry, operation and maintenance of foreign education providers and protect students from receiving sub-standard education from fly-by-night operators.
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Sirs,
We are some unfortunate students who took admission in MBBS course in the ‘TEERANTHANKER MAHAVIR MEDICAL COLLEGE, MORADABAD” thinking that the MCI, UGC and Ministry of HRD have cleared the college and that all is well………….This is our plight and how the college works…!!! Please HELP!!!!
1) 80% of Medical Faculty of the college is on ‘MCI inspection face presentation basis”.
2) All 80% ‘Faculty members’ are on the pay roll of the College.
3) They are informed as soon as an MCI inspection is imminent and taxis/air tickets etc are sent to various places including IGI airport to collect faculty members.
4) All these faculty members are usually made to stay in ‘Hotel Park Square’ in Moradabad’.
5) Fresh MBBS graduates or junior Assistant Professors are teaching students in ALL departments.
6) We are rather surprised as to how the MCI inspectors cannot understand this obvious arrangement OR are they so Naïve??? Or conniving with the College administration.
7) Just ask any student if so and so has taught them ever….and all will be clear.
8) The UGC has gone a step ahead and given the status as ‘Deemed University”, implying that the management has been licensed to issue degrees as well.
9) Sir, we are sure that you able administrators at the UGC, MCI and HRD will be well aware of the future implications of this and the quality of Medical Education that will be imparted.
10) The Chairman, Mr. Manish Jain is running a commercial institution in the guise of portraying himself to be an ‘Educationalist’.
11) We are sure there might be many more such fraud medical colleges and deemed universities.
12) We pray to you to please wake up to the real situation and stop these Lalas from making a mockery of professional education in India.
Dr Ashwani Nanda (a concerned father).
Civil Lines , Moradabad.
(E mail- ash.nanda@rediffmail.com)
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