Self autonomy granted to RKMission run educational institutes by WB govt.

Updated on: Friday, July 06, 2012

Educational institutes of Ramakrishna Mission would be granted self autonomy by West Bengal government, which would help in their development, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said.
   
“We have taken a policy decision that all schools and colleges under them would be excluded from school service commission. We will give them self autonomy,” Banerjee said here at the convocation of Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University here.
    
Describing the institutes under the Mission as among the 'best in the world', she said the self autonomy would allow independent recruitment of teachers.
    
Banerjee urged RKM, which runs a number of educational institutions across the country including three colleges and 58 schools in the state, to give special attention to the needs of the minorities.
    
She also gave a cheque of Rs one crore for the development of the university at RKM's global headquarters at Belur.
 
Mission officials said a decline in the academic standards of institutes under RKM had been noticed and teachers joining them from School Service Commission had failed to meet its standards.
     
“Our approach to education is holistic and includes character building as well. So we had asked the state government to give us autonomy in selection of qualified monks as teachers in our institutes,” said a spokesperson of the Mission.
    
RKM institutes enjoy special privileges from the state government since the seventies but they were scrapped in 2010.

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