Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Prakash Javadekar on Friday chaired the review meeting with Directors of five Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research, located at Pune, Kolkata, Mohali, Bhopal and Thiruvananthapuram and the Indian Institute of
Science, Bengaluru, at IISER, Mohali.
This was followed by interaction with students and faculty of IISER Mohali where he received feedback for improving the performance of these institutions. He was accompanied by Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development (Higher Education) Mahendra Nath Pandey.
Interacting with the media after the meetings at IISER Mohali, Javadekar said that the meetings were good and fruitful and helped in deciding the road ahead for these premier institutions of science education.
He said that the Government role must be that of a facilitator and not a controller, for which it proposes to give more autonomy to premier institutions of higher learning, based on their performance.