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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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Relief to students. JEE, NEET in Sept
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NEW DELHI :
On July 3 the Human Resource Development
Ministry (MHRD) officially announced the postponement of
the coveted Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) and the
National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) for
admission to undergraduate engineering and medical
courses respectively.
They will now be held in September, the government said,
allaying fear of lakhs of students and parents. According to the new schedule, the JEE-Main will now
be held from September 1 to 6; JEE Advanced on Sept 27
and the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET)
will be held on Sept 13, the press note said quoting the
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UGC breaks silence,
says final-year exams necessary
NEW DELHI :
On July 6, the UGC broke its silence and said that the
final-year undergraduate and postgraduate exams are
necessary and that the students will have to appear in
exams to get degrees.
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MHRD lowers PM
Research Fellowship bar to widen GATE
NEW DELHI :
The Union Human Resource Development Ministry (MHRD) has
amended rules of the Prime Minister’s Research
Fellowship
Scheme so as to include more institutes/ universities in
the scheme.
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BCI panel to study CLAT possibility in
regional languages
NEW DELHI :
The Bar Council of India has constituted a seven-member
committee to assess if Common Law Admission Test (CLAT)
could be organised in regional languages.
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Rural posting to be made
must for UP's MBBS passouts
LUCKNOW : On September 23 UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said
that those graduating from government medical
colleges in the state will have to accept rural posting
for two years.
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Courts CANNOT
examine answer sheets, says SC
GDA
cancels land allotment to IMT Ghaziabad
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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New VCs
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HYDERABAD : Prof GRC Reddy and Dr Vajja
Sambasiva Rao have been appointed vice-chancellors of SR
University, Warangal and SRM University, Vijayawada. Both
are private universities.
Dr Reddy who took charge of the university on July 1 and Dr
Rao have vast administrative experience.
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No
one-year degrees please, IIMs told |
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NEW DELHI
: The Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) has
written to Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs),
saying they cannot offer one-year postgraduate
management degrees as University Grants Commission (UGC)
regulations do not allow such a practice, people
familiar with the matter said. The advisory was issued
on July 3 after the Union law ministry gave its opinion
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Deemed
universities under PR Act : SC |
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NEW DELHI : On April 27 the Supreme Court ruled that
all deemed universities are necessarily covered under
the Prevention of Corruption Act as their officials
performed no less or any different public duty
undertaken by conventional universities and its
officials.
Delivering the judgement in
State of Gujarat Vs Mansukhbhai Kanjibhai Shah
(Criminal
Appeal No.989 of 2018)
the court
felt that "the duty of the Court is that any
anticorruption law has to be interpreted and worked out
in such a fashion as to strengthen the fight against
corruption. That is to say in a situation where two
constructions are eminently reasonable, the Court has to
accept the one that seeks to eradicate corruption to the
one which seeks to perpetuate it.”
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Cabinet okays National Med Commission bill |
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NEW DELHI : The draft of the National Medical
Commission (NMC) Bill, 2019, which had been drifting on
for three years has finally been approved by the Union
cabinet but may still take some time in Parliament
considering the nature of reforms it proposes. In the first place, the reforms that the
bill proposes would affect the business of private
medical colleges in the southern states and their lobby,
very strong as it is, may place numerous legal and
political hurdles in the way.
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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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