AICTE chief for automatic autonomy to educational institutions
Kolkata, May 5: Institutions with a standard level of accreditation should be given autonomy automatically, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) Chairman Anil D. Sahasrabudhe said on Saturday.
"When any institution which gets accredited with a level which is beyond a threshold, they should be given autonomy automatically, whether the faculties or the institutions or the University want it or not. I think that is the way forward," he said here.
"In our country, to become autonomous there is still a long process involved. There are instances where institutions are interested in autonomy but the staffs and faculties are not because they feel the workload will increase," Sahasrabudhe said while addressing a session 'Millennial Learning Educational Strategies for the Gen Next' organised by Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
"These are all mindset problems," he said.
With autonomy in place, they have a lot of freedom in order to makeAtheirAown curriculum, practice the way they want to teach and there are a lot of other advantages, he said.
Referring to the Kaw Committee Report on Technical Education, he said India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and SriLanka are the only four countries that are still following the affiliation system and rest all other countries have autonomous colleges.
According to him, recently, the government has added three more parameters - affordability, autonomy and self-declaration or accountability. Stringent measures will be taken against those institutions that are not following what they have declared, he added.
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Rajasthan: 3-year-old girl pulled out of borewell after 10-day rescue operation, dies
Jaipur, Jan 1: A three-year-old girl, who fell into a 150-foot-deep borewell in Rajasthan's Kotputli-Behror district, was brought out in an unconscious state on Wednesday after a 10-day rescue operation and rushed to hospital, officials said.
However, the girl, Chetna, was declared dead by doctors at the hospital, they said.
NDRF team in-charge Yogesh Meena said that when the girl was taken out there was no movement in her body.
