New Delhi: The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) grants approval to the new pre-conditions set by it, for an educational institution to seek a deemed status. According to the newly prescribed laws, the institutions will have to fit in with fifteen years of proven excellence record, high accreditation ratings and more power to the Vice Chancellors (VCs).
University Grants Commission (UGC) is expected to give a final approval after the MHRD. Presently, the deemed universities function under the UGC strategies which did not bind them officially, but with these regulations coming into place, the deemed universities are bound to follow them legally. As per the proposed regulations, an applicant institute must now be in existence for 15 years and not 10 years as earlier.
In addition, under the new regulations, it is probable that the institutes offering courses in emerging areas of technology would be restricted to government run institutes. However, it is only for a national expert panel to decide on the eligibility criteria for these institutes to fit in the category.
Furthermore, rigorous assessment norm have been enforced by the UGC, which proposes that before another committee begins inspections of its campus, an expert committee must ensure a pre-initiation check. The panels of experts will be reconstituted every five years.
The MHRD's review committee, noticing the importance of managements over the academic administration in various deemed universities, has made the UGC proposal to suggest that the VC's contribute to a greater role in functioning of the institute.
