Teachers' Day March Against Modi Government's 'Meddling' in Autonomy of Institutions
Basant Kumar Mohanty | 05 September 2024 | The Telegraph
Associations of faculty members of central and state universities on Wednesday expressed concern over the "decline" in teaching and research standards in institutions because of alleged interference and issuance of diktats by the Union government and its agencies.
The Federation of Central Universities Teachers’ Associations (FEDCUTA) and the All India Federation of University and College Teachers Organisations (AIFUCTO) will hold a march and a public meeting on Thursday on the occasion of Teachers' Day against the National Education Policy (NEP) and the government's interference in the autonomy of institutions.
They cited the measures taken by the University Grants Commission (UGC) — the higher education regulator — like asking universities to admit PhD students through the National Eligibility Test (NET) and follow the Common University Entrance Test-Undergraduate (CUET-UG) and CUET-Postgraduate for admission to their UG and PG courses, respectively.
The UGC has decided to allow universities to permit students to pursue two academic degree programmes simultaneously.