Uttarakhand Governor Dr Aziz Qureshi has given permission to 32 B.Ed colleges to e affiliated to Kumaon University and also permission to them for admissions.
This is following the interim directions of the honourable High Court and will be subject to the final decision of the court and applicable only for this academic session 2012-13. A meeting was held recently at Rajbhawan during which a committee was constituted whose members are VCs of Uttarakhand Technical University and Sridev Suman University and additional secretary to the governor.
The committee will ensure that approval and recognition is given to any institution only after examining that norms of AICTE, UGC, NCTE and the Government were being strictly followed. Dr Qureshi said that in future, detailed examination should be done at all levels and only then should recognition or affiliation be given.
He also gave instructions that more than 800 vacancies in various Government colleges be filled within three months and action be taken on recruitments to be made through the State public service commission. The governor said he had given direction, in order to provide students with more options, to the VC of Kumaon University to start course in Philosophy, Gandhian Studies and Urdu and to the VC of Doon University to start the School of Physical Sciences, and courses in Urdu, French, Korean, Arabic and Japanese.