Vivek's Commentary

On 20th March, Indian government in their "HISTORICAL DECISION" granted the autonomy to 60 educational institution (5 Central Universities, 21 State Universities, 24 Deemed Universities, 2 Private Universities and 8 Colleges). Source - Public information bureau of India Human Resource Minister Shri Prakash Javadekar said that UGC will have control over the given institutions but these institutions will have freedom to start the new courses, off campus centers, skill-related courses, research parks and other new academic programs. They are free to hire the foreign faculty and enter into academic collaborations. This looks like India will witness the high quality education, India will witness the research based education etc etc. But I don't think so. Anyway we already have 74 autonomous institutions (This doesn't include the institutions and colleges which are grated the partial autonomy or autonomy for specific department.). But still we haven't seen any majo