After failing to get ‘National Importance’ status, NCERT vies for ‘deemed university’ tag
NCERT, an autonomous academic body advising the Centre on matters of school education, is learned to have applied to the University Grants Commission (UGC) for the “deemed university” status under the de novo category.
PoPs are appointed at the Indian Institutes of Technology in Delhi, Madras and Guwahati. With the government’s proposal of making the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) an “institute of national importance” on the back burner, the NCERT is now vying for another tag — deemed to be university.
NCERT, an autonomous academic body advising the Centre on matters of school education, is learned to have applied to the University Grants Commission (UGC) for the “deemed university” status under the de novo category. The matter is listed for discussion at a meeting of the Executive Committee (EC) on Monday.
The EC is the highest decision-making body of NCERT and is chaired by the Education Minister. The proposal, however, has elicited opposition from within the NCERT with a faculty member writing to the director against it. Assistant Professor Abhay Kumar, who is also an elected member of NCERT’s establishment committee, has opposed the idea on the ground that the “deemed university” status will erode NCERT’s autonomy.
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