New Delhi: Government has directed all the University Grants Commission (UGC) recognized universities to launch their own websites and make all the necessary information readily available at website for the students. According to Kapil Sibal, HRD Minister, the central government is concerned about certain practices being adopted that could damage the reliability of the complete university system. He further added that the central government is of the opinion that directions issued for information disclosure by universities and higher educational institutions, is a question of policy in national interest.
As per the instructions laid, UGC shall ask all universities and other higher educational institutions recognized by it, to have a website in which full and complete disclosure of information would be provided by such institutions or universities. There will be information on availability of infrastructure and physical assets, information regarding grants-in-aid provided by the central government or the state government. There shall also be information regarding the admission criteria and the process of admissions in respect of all courses of study.
However, the ministry said that the website must also have information regarding the fee structure, including all its components and information regarding academic curricula in respect of the courses offered and information regarding all study centers, and its locations thereof, opened by the universities and institutions to impart distance education. UGC shall provide a link to the website of the university or institution in its own website for ease of access by stakeholders. For deemed universities, regulation of fees shall be done by the already constituted state level fee committees.
