‘Stop the bifurcation of Anna varsity’
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A cross-section of lecturers, activists and members of the civil society has issued a press release urging the Tamil Nadu authorities to cease the bifurcation of Anna University and make clear its stand on the implementation of the National Education Policy-2020.
The assertion, issued on Thursday, questioned the want for bifurcating the college if the State authorities’s declare that it was not in favour of the Institute of Eminence (IoE) standing for the college was certainly true.
The signatories included retired decide of Madras High Court Justice D. Hariparanthaman; former Vice-Chancellor of Anna University M. Anandakrishnan; and former Vice-Chancellor of Manonmaniam Sundaranar University V. Vasanthi Devi.
Condemning Anna University Vice-Chancellor M.K. Surappa for allegedly bypassing the State authorities and writing on to the Union authorities to proceed with the IoE standing for the establishment, the assertion requested what motion had been taken by the State authorities in opposition to him. It urged the State to make clear its stand on varied points in the National Education Policy, which it mentioned would switch the management of training absolutely to the Union authorities. “The State government has stopped with just opposing the three-language formula in the NEP. What happened to the committee formed to study the NEP and its impacts,” it requested.
The assertion contended that the Union authorities’s IoE scheme would make training inaccessible to these from socio-economically deprived teams at the State-run universities.
Arguing that the grant of the IoE standing would take away the State authorities’s management over the college, the assertion mentioned the scheme, together with the NEP, have to be vehemently opposed.
Justice Hariparanthaman, who spoke at the digital convention organised to launch the assertion, criticised the State for not opposing the erosion of the State’s autonomy.
“Late Chief Minister Jayalalithaa never allowed that, be it NEET, the Food Security Act or appointment of persons from outside Tamil Nadu as Vice-Chancellors of universities here,” he mentioned.
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