In a bid to give emphasis on higher education, Uttarakhand Governor Dr KK Paul held a review meeting with Ministers and senior officials concerned on various matters related to higher education in the State at Rajbhawan on Monday. Dr Paul said that the infrastructure of universities in the state would have to be given priority. The basic facilities should be provided and short-term and long-term problems need to be resolved to create a better educational environment in the universities.
Addressing to the ministers and officials, Dr Paul said pending issues related to the Universities must be looked into seriously. Vice chancellors of the state universities had raised such issues at their meetings with him from time to time.
The issues discussed at the meeting included shifting of private students of Kumaon university to Uttarakhand Open University and Sridev Suman university, removing affiliation of colleges and institutions from the central HNB Garhwal university, transferring vocational courses from UTU to Sridev Suman university, bringing the posts of registrar, deputy registrar and assistant registrar under the centralised cadre, providing land to Sridev Suman university at Sahaspur, Dehradun, and the appointment of regular vcs for HNB medical education university, Sridev Suman university and Uttarakhand Open university.
The ministers informed the Governor that work was underway on most of these matters. Present at the meeting were higher education minister Indira Hridyesh, agriculture and medical education minister Harak Singh Rawat, Technical education minister Yashpal Arya and Sanskrit Education minister Mantri Prasad Naithani. Senior officials of all these departments were also present. Secretary to
the Governor Arun Dhaundiyal and legal advisor were also present.