[LIS-Forum] Ministry would try and introduce the Bill for the creation of the National Commission for Higher Education and Research (NCHER)

Goutam Biswas goutambiswas8 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 4 12:26:09 IST 2010


New Delhi: A draft cabinet note for the creation of an overarching
regulatory body in the higher education section has been prepared and
circulated across ministries for consultations, Kapil Sibal, Union minister
for human resource development, said at a press conference on Thursday.


Setting agenda: Union minister for HRD Kapil Sibal, with MoS Purandeshwari
Devi, briefs the press in New Delhi on Thursday. Subhav Shukla / PTI

Sibal said the ministry would try and introduce the Bill for the creation of
the National Commission for Higher Education and Research (NCHER) in the
next session of Parliament. A task force to aid and suggest measures for
setting up a regulatory body has also been set up.

NCHER is being set up on the recommendation of the Yash Pal committee. The
committee, which was set up to suggest reforms in the higher education
sector, had also recommended that the commission be a constitutional entity
to ensure the absolute autonomy along the lines of the Election Commission
of India. The suggestion has however been rejected by the Prime Minister’s
Office, which has been studying the ministry’s proposal to amend the
Constitution for setting up the regulatory body, saying the it should not be
used for regulatory purposes, a source said.

“It has been a setback because our report (on NCHER) wanted to leave no
loopholes that would put the regulator at the risk of political influence,’’
a member of the Yash Pal committee said, requesting anonymity.

NCHER, once set up, will replace and subsume the University Grants
Commission, the All India Council for Technical Education and the National
Council for Teachers Education, which have thus far regulated the higher
education sector in India.

The HRD ministry had earlier proposed bringing a Bill to set up the NCHER
after the Constitution was amended.
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Goutam Biswas
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-- 
Goutam Biswas
University Research Fellow, Department of Library and Information Science,
University of Kalyani, Nadia, West Bengal,India.
MOBILE NO + 91 9831092149 , Phone:(Office) (033) 2582-8220/8293/8750
(Extn.338); Fax: (91) 033-2582 8282
Email: goutambiswas8 at gmail.com; Website:
http://www.goutambiswasresearch.yolasite.com/

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