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Jio
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A Statesman Report
NEW DELHI August 1, 2018 : There are two ways
in which Governments can be made to bend to individual
will. The first is to persuade those in power to flout
policy to favour a person or an institution. This route
can open governments to criticism because the deviation
is easily established.
The other is to get Government to write policy that fits
the needs of a beneficiary. The Institution of Eminence
scheme formulated by the Government last year appears to
be an example of the latter, tailored as the
Gazette notification of 29 August 2017 was to favour
the proposed Jio Institute of the Reliance Foundation
run by Mukesh and Nita Ambani. But the devil is in the
details.
To begin with, the
Gazette notification entitled UGC (Institutions of
Excellence Deemed to be Universities), Regulations 2017,
lists the following parameters that the Committee of
Experts constituted to identify Institutions of Eminence
should seek in an applicant:
It should preferably be multi-disciplinary or
interdisciplinary and have both teaching and research
focus of an exceptionally high quality.
It should offer interdisciplinary courses, including in
areas of emerging technology and interest as well as
those of relevance to the development concerns of
countries like India and also award degrees, diplomas
and other academic distinctions in such
interdisciplinary areas. Click
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7 judge
SC bench to decide AMU issue
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NEW DELHI :
On February 12 a three-judge bench led
by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi decided to review the
famous
Azeez
Basha case that had firmly held that the
Aligarh Muslim University was not a minority
institution.
Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justices L. Nageswara Rao
and Sanjiv Khanna referred the matter to the larger
bench of seven judges on the request of Attorney-General
K.K. Venugopal and senior advocate Rajeev Dhavan who
pleaded on behalf of the AMU.
In Azeez Basha vs
Union of India case a five-judge bench had, in
1968, ruled that AMU was neither established nor was
being maintained by the Muslim minorities hence could
not be given the status of a minority institution. A
review of a five judge bench, therefore, required a
larger bench.
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Javadekar U-turn, says
Jio not given Eminence tag
NEW DELHI :
On July 26 HRD minister Prakash Javadekar played
backfoot in Rajya Sabha on the Jio issue and
categorically said that "Jio Institute has not been
declared an 'Institution of Eminence'."
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Govt tables Bill
in Lok Sabha to replace MCI ordinance
NEW DELHI : On December 14 the government
introduced a Bill in Lok Sabha to replace an Ordinance
to supersede the existing Medical Council of India
and vest its powers in a board of governors.
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GNDU Amritsar and Osmania University get Rs
107 each
NEW DELHI : The Ministry of Human Resources
Development (MHRD) has released a grant of Rs 107 crore
each to Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU) Amritsar and
Osmania University, Hyderabad.
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No takers for ESIC quota
medical seats in Uttar Pradesh
KANPUR : There are hardly
any takers for medical seats reserved by the Employees State
Insurance Corporation (ESIC) in the medical colleges of the country
due to lack of information about the facility.
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Courts CANNOT
examine answer sheets, says SC
SC refuses
to interfere in CLAT 2018 counselling
re-recognition of distance edu courses
opposed
YOGI DEMANDS SC, ST RESERVATION IN
AMU, JAMIA
ENGINEERING LOSES LURE AS BOYS
TURN TO HUMANITIES
52% IIT ENTRANTS
QUALIFIED BY SELF-STUDY : REPORT
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Historian Mushirul Hasan passes away
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NEW DELHI :
Mushirul Hasan, historian, who has extensively written on
India's partition, died on December 10.
He was 71. An alumnus of AMU and the University of
Cambridge, Hasan was the Vice-Chancellor of the Jamia Millia
Islamia.
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Satheesh Reddy takes DRDO charge |
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HYDERABAD
: On August 27 Dr G. Satheesh Reddy formally took over
as the 13th Chairman of Defence Research and Development
Organisation (DRDO) here. His appointment was okayed by
the ACC on August 24.
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Plagiarism : UGC for action against Pathak |
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NEW DELHI :
The HRD Minister of State Satya Pal Singh told Rajya
Sabha on August 2 that a case of plagiarism has come to
notice of the UGC against Dr Vinay Kumar Pathak,
Vice-Chancellor Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University,
Lucknow.
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BHU's Raj Kumar is Panjab varsity VC |
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CHANDIGARH :
On July 21 Panjab varsity Chancellor Venkaiah Naidu,
appointed Prof Raj Kumar, Dean and Head, Institute of
Management Studies, BHU, as the new Vice-Chancellor of
Panjab University.
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Jio choice : MHRD says expert panel did it |
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NEW DELHI :
Facing mounting criticism HRD Secretary R. Subrahmanyam on July 10
took refuse behind former Chief Election
Commissioner N. Gopalaswami and others who, he said, had
chosen the institution for Institute of Eminence
status. In his
clarification the Ministry of Human Resource Development
said that the names of the six institutions were
recommended by an eminent panel and that
there was need to trust their judgment.
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