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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TN youth from UAE has tested negative for Mpox: Health Minister Subramanian
Chennai, Nov 2: A 27-year-old native of Thiruvarur district, who had arrived from Sharjah, has tested negative for monkey pox, Health Minister Ma Subramanian said here on Saturday.
Test results from both the King Institute of Preventive Medicine and Research here and the Pune-based National Institute of Virology have show negative for Mpox virus, the minister said.
Subramanian had earlier in the day told reporters that result was awaited for the sample that had been dispatched to the NIV while test result from King Institute ruled out monkey pox.
On October 31, upon his arrival at Tiruchirappalli airport from the UAE, during screening, the young man displayed fever symptoms and small skin lesions. Hence, he was taken to a government hospital.
Subramanian said the returnee had been frightened and hence left for his hometown of Valangaiman in Thiruvarur district. "This treatment is for his good and in order to prevent the spread of infection," the minister said.
Hence, he was brought back to the hospital by the authorities with police help and he has been receiving good treatment at the state-run facility. Further, Subramanian said that the test result from the government-run King Institute indicated Chickenpox and marked negative for presence of Mpox.
Screening at airports for passengers arriving from foreign countries is going on continuously in the state and international airports have dedicated isolated rooms.
Special wards are ready in government medical college hospitals, including those in Chennai and Tiruchirappalli, to provide treatment for Mpox, in case anyone tests positive for the infection, the minister added.
