Expert panel to look into autonomy for central varsities, IITs, IIMs

Updated on: Sunday, August 22, 2010

The HRD ministry has set up a high-power committee, under noted legal expert N R Madhava Menon, to come up with a comprehensive policy on the issue of autonomy for higher educational institutions like central universities, IITs and IIMs.

The six-member committee, which also has three additional special invitees, has been asked to review the state of institutional autonomy in central universities, IITs and IIMs in academic governance and financial matters.

The panel will recommend mechanism for norm-based funding of central educational institutions for development and maintenance, with an aim to enhance their financial autonomy.

It will examine the decentralisation of autonomy within central universities, IITs,IIMs and suggest measures by which institutional autonomy can percolate to governance structure within the university and to the teacher.

The committee will review the present governance structures of central universities, IITs, IIMs, and recommend steps for providing substantive and procedural autonomy to them vis-a-vis University Grants Commission (UGC), other central regulatory bodies and the central government.

It will also decide how to foster accountability so that they can function as public institutions.

The committee consists of Seyed Hasnain, vice-chancellor, Hyderabad University; Pankaj Chandra, director, IIM, Bangalore; M S Ananth, director, IIT, Madras; Mihir Choudhary, vice-chancellor, Tezpur University and Ved Prakash, vice-chairperson, UGC. Prakash will be the convenor of the committee. While UGC chairperson S Thorat, AICTE chairperson S S Mantha and IGNOU vice-chancellor V N Rajasekharan Pillai are the special invitees.

Expert panel to look into autonomy for central varsities, IITs, IIMs

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