Governor Droupadi Murmu has directed all the Vice-Chancellors (VCs) of the State universities to open themselves and the centres they head to novelties in the field of education and its changing pattern nationally and globally. Advocating the line of Government to provide job-earning education, the Chancellor of State Universities also suggested during a meeting with them here on Wednesday to scale up the quality of education in their universities to an extent which attracts students from outside the State as well.
Taking strong note over emerging tussle between university administration and students in recent past, the Governor expressed her displeasure over any situation in any of the universities which compelled local police to visit university campus to maintain law and order situation inside.
Pointing towards similar situation in Vinoba Bhave University (Hazaribagh) since a couple of weeks, Murmu said that it was not an ideal situation. She suggested starting Art of living and Moral Education classes in university to combat emerging tension in students in daily life.
However, Director General of Police (DGP) DK Pandey expressed police’s department’s preparedness to open a post or police station if and when land was provided by university administration. When informed about NAAC Accreditation bagged by 12 colleges of Vinoba Bhave University and one college of Nilamber-Pitamber University and Sido-Kanhu University each, Murmu directed VCs to scale up efforts to bag the same prestige for all their affiliated institutions. She also directed to provide OMR Sheet to students in college-level examinations, which would help them at the time of sitting in competitive exams thereafter.
Issues related to land sought for Nilamber-Pitamber University which doesn’t own land of its own at the moment, speeding up process of filling vacant posts especially when roaster clearance has already been completed in most of the universities among a couple of others were also discussed.
As far as land availability for Nilamber-Pitamber University was concerned, Revenue and land Reforms Secretary KK Soan, present in the meeting, informed the Governor that a directive was already issued to Medininagar DC for a piece of 73 acres of land.
He suggested VC of the University to contact the DC at the earliest for that. HRD Minister Neera Yadav, Principal Secretary to the Governor SK Satpathi, Higher and Technical Education Secretary Ajay Kumar Singh, JPSC Chairman and other senior officials from education department and universities were also present in the meeting.
Murmu also enquired about proposed formation of separate departments of Tribal Studies under Tribal Studies Department. She asked VCs to direct teachers to put their teaching notes on university websites, so that students came in the class room with full preparation. She said that uploading notes on university websites was also necessary under Right to Information Act. Yadav assured Government’s commitment for providing quality education and expressed requirement of better inter-departmental coordination to attain the same.
Veterinary College and its situation also remained a point of discussion in the meeting. Notably, the admissions were closed for three years in the college, which were opened this year itself. The Governor also directed Universities which have chosen four model colleges each, premier college and women college to equip with best of the infrastructure, library, computer room and smart class room.