Three education sector bills passed by Gujarat Assembly

Gandhinagar

Gujarat Assembly today passed an amendment bill for private universities. As per this, four new private universities will come up in Gujarat. They are; Sakalchand Patel University Visnagar, Marwadi University Rajkot, Plast India International University Vapi and Anant National University Ahmedabad.

Gujarat has at present 17 private universities. With new four universities, the total number of private universities in Gujarat will be 21. With Gujarat government run universities the total number of private universities in Gujarat goes beyond 40.

Gujarat Assembly today also passed a bill proposing formation of ‘Guajrat Rajya Uchch Shikshah Parishad’.

Presenting the bill, minister Vasuben Trivedi said the parishad will advise the State government, will make plan, wil monitor and regulate the development process.

Proposed body will have 15 members. It will be headed by Chief Minister while Education Minister will playa role of Vice President. Minister of State Education will be a joint vice president. Secretaries of education, finance, parliamentary affairs, health and family welfare, industry and mines, labour and employment, sports, youths and cultural affairs, Commissioners of higher education, technical education and medical education and research and head of UGC New Delhi or member not lower rank of joint secretary position will be members of this body.

Maximum five vice chancellors, one head of private university, maximum two distinguish persons, five prominent persons from various fields of society, three educationists from colleges and member secretary will be appointed. Barring those having membership due to their position, all others will be members for three years.

The concept of Parishad has been proposed by University Grants Commission and Rashtriya Uchch Shiksha Abhiyan 2013.

In another education related bill pass, north Gujarat based Ganpat University’s Director has been given Director General status. This will provide further ease in administration. The university has around 10,000 students in various streams o engineering. With various changes in clauses, all deans will become academic council members.

– DeshGujarat