The Minister of State for higher education, Dhan Singh Rawat held elaborate discussions on reforms under consideration for the higher education sector while chairing a meeting with the office bearers of different students unions at Vidhan Sabha auditorium on Monday.
Suggestions were given on the contemporary issues like admissions, examinations and student union elections in course of the meeting.
The student leaders assured Dhan Singh that every kind of support would be given from their end for creative and positive initiatives to be taken in higher education.
The minister informed that an umbrella act would be brought in to curb the arbitrariness of private universities of the state. He said that a conference of the students’ unions would be organised soon during which the final
draft for amendment in lyngdoh commission recommendations would be prepared. It was agreed that the student union elections in Garhwal University, Kumoan University and private universities would be held on three different dates.
The issues of book donation campaign and fee hike also figured in the meeting.