Centre assumes power to appoint head of TISS, four other privately managed deemed universities
Basant Kumar Mohanty | 11 July 2023 | The Telegraph
The Centre has given itself the power to appoint key functionaries to five privately managed deemed universities that receive substantial government funding.
The education ministry will now appoint the chancellors and vice-chancellors at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai; Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra; Gujarat Vidyapith, Ahmedabad; Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore; and the Gurukula Kangri, Haridwar.