Chennai:
After Indian universities are being hit by scams and lack of quality teachers, educationalists and social activists are now pinning their hopes on the Narendra Modi government to create a pool of learned educationalists from which country can draw resources for regional and national universities.
Addressing a press conference highlighting the illegality of appointment of Kalyani Mathivanan as the vice-chancellor of Madurai Kamraj University, A Narayanan, director of CHANGEindia and editor paadam, said that Modi government should try to work for this to ensure India’s quality of education doesn’t disintegrate.
Narayanan also urged Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa to bring in complete transparency and objectivity in the appointment of Search committees and vice-chancellors as per University Grants commission.
He also urged the Chief Minister to remove Kalyani Mathivanan alleging that she has misrepresented about her qualification in her biodata to search committee besides a First Information Report has named the vice-chancellor as the first accused in the brutal attack of Prof A Srinivasan, convenor of ‘SaveMKU Coalition’.
Narayanan said that he has urged the chief minister in his memorandum for the need for a ‘special fast track court’ and a special investigation and prosecution team to consolidate all alleged cases of corruption and irregularities in various public universities from 2008 till date.
Advocate and notary B S Ajeetha and Fifth Pillar president Vijay Anand also spoke on the occasion.
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