AMU gives itself pan-India character

Vice-chancellor P.K. Abdul Azis is keen that the institution joins the ranks of the best in the field of education.

 

The vice chancellor told that a proposal to open five new centres of the university to give it an identifiable all-India character is awaiting clearance from the Ministry of Human Resources Development (HRD), while four examinations centres have started functioning this year.

 

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has also given Rs.70 million to the university's technical college, the Zakir Hussain College of Engineering and Technology (ZHCET), to upgrade it to the level of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).

 

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The money, according to university officials, will give a fillip to the university's initiatives.

 

M.T. Ahmad, principal, ZHCET, said the HRD ministry has identified the college as one of the seven institutions to be upgraded into an IIT.

 

The university hopes that its project to upgrade ZHCET will resume as soon as the ministry and the University Grants Commission resume funding under the 11th Plan.

 

The university has set up four new centres to conduct entrance examinations across the country to give it a pan-India status. The move, though welcomed by almost everybody, was opposed by a section of teachers who alleged that they were not taken into confidence.

 

The vice-chancellor will meet the teachers March 16 to discuss the initiatives. He denied allegations by some teachers that the university was not following standard democratic procedures to arrive at policy decisions.