The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) is planning to overhaul the system of promotion in the faculty positions in the universities and the Government is in process of finalising new policy on higher education, said the Union Minister of State for HRD and Namani Gange, Satyapal Singh while talking to the media persons at Doon University here on Monday.
He informed that there are many flaws in the Academic Performance Indicator (API) system which is used in promotions to the posts of associate professors and professors. Earlier in his address, the Union Minister said that complaints of plagiarism in the writing of research papers in the universities is very high. He said the Government is committed to remove this menace. Singh informed that maximum numbers of Ph.D are done in the universities of India but India’s contribution in global research is a meager 0.2 per cent.