Protest against Guj Govt's new University Act

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Surat, Mar 28 (UNI) A routine meeting of the Senate committee of Veer Narmad South Gujarat University here today witnessed a strong protest against the Narendra Modi-led government's proposed Common University Act.

Generally, the Senate meeting of VNSGU was a routine affair with the presentation of the annual report and the budget, but a group of Senate members demanded a discussion on the proposed Common University Act by the Gujarat government. After an initial resistance, the Vice Chancellor allowed 30 minutes for the discussion of the issue.

Senate members like Ganashyam Sanadhya and Hoshang Mirza alleged that the proposed Act will destroy the autonomy of the education system in Gujarat and will bring about ''undemocratic control'' of the education system in the state.

Ganashyam Sanadhya who is also the Principal of MTB Arts College in Surat told UNI that the governmet wants to control all the educational activities like the appointment of vice chancellors, deans, chairmen of board of studies and so on.

''We are a democratic country, a republic and we have a decentralised power system. The government should understand that they are not everything...,'' Mr Sanadhya said.

He also alleged that the governement intends to replace the educational tribunal with administrative tribunal, which, according to him, will bring more governmental control.

''Under the present system, the educational disputes are resolved by an independent judge which is a proper judicial authority. But the government wants to introduce administrative authority in the place of judicial authority. This will gradually open ways to party nominees to come to such posts,'' added Mr Sanadhya.

Mr Mirza told UNI that a majority of the members in the senate are against the proposed Act and a resolution was passed, condemning the government's move to introduce such act and replace the educational tribunal with administrative tribunal.

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