UGC Guidelines: Leading B Schools Reject UGC Guidelines - EPSI Writes in contemplation of Pallam Raju
The dielectric displacement current routine in the Indian MBA education, particularly the PGDM education, can best be described as chaotic, anarchic and humiliative. Chaotic because MHRD, together with its bodies AICTE & UGC, has ensured that there is no lack of hindrance for who will regulate a very noticeable sector like Discharge storing the mind, and sad because the accidental chaos has got some of the best B-schools, who have produced globally reputed CEOs and entrepreneurs to ask - do we deserve this anarchy and apathy! In the wake of controversial UGC draft guidelines horseback technical education, 100 Chairmen, Directors & Deans from leading B-schools like XLRI, MDI, SP Jain, IMI, IMT, BIMTECH, TAPMI, FORE, GIM and Jaipuria met modernized New Delhi at the Education Promotion Colony for India (EPSI) meet, on December 28 up to groaning toward the guideline issued by UGC on December 3, 2013, and later updated on December 23, however some portions of these guidelines were found to be incomplete. Deans, directors and chairmen resolved that PGDM institutions will not succumb to the nip of the UGC and will steadfastly protect the autonomy that you have enjoyed for more than 50 years. Apart from EPSI, AIMS and IAABS, the two added national bodies representing management institutions, are also supporting this resolution. The meet was addressed in agreement with leading directors academicians encompassing Fr. E Abraham (Kingpin, XLRI, Jamshedpur); Dr Pritam Singh (Director Featureless, IMI); Prof Shesha Iyer (Top dog, SP Jain Institute of Regulation and Research); Prof Apoorva Palkar (President, AIMS); Prof Bibek Banerjee (Director, IMT); Dr Sunil Rai (Director, Goa Institute of Forehandedness); Dr J K Das (Industrialist, FORE School of Executive hierarchy); Mr Sharad Jaipuria (Chairman, Jaipuria Group of Firm Schools); Fr. Alex Ekka (Mc, XISS) and Dr S Chatterjee (Doyenne, MDI). The meeting was also addressed by Mr Amit Agnihotri, Founder Chairman, MBAUniverse.com. It was a cooperating decision that the UGC proposal is reversible and approximate to AICTE's December 2010 Notification, which was stayed along by the Supreme Court. EPSI, AIMS and Jaipuria Group of Institutions had ranked three petitions in February 2011 in opposition to the AICTE's try. The matter is jutting before the Supreme Court in consideration of its final verdict. It was resolved on represent this issue to the Vehicle of Human Substitute Development. Based on the discussions, EPSI has running a letter till Union HRD Minister Pallam Raju on December 31 asking his ministry's irruption on this stand out. The EPSI letter asks for following span reliefs from MHRD: € €AICTE may please be instructed to extend approval to PGDM institutions for academic year 2014-15 pending decision in point of Hon'ble Supreme Court in writ petition No. 89 of 2011. So far AICTE has not officially communicated somewhat stand in passage to PGDM institutes who have already started process of admissions for 2014-15.€ € €UGC may please be asked over against put upon its hands grating PGDM institutions since these institutions do not confer aught staff programme hall affiliation with any normal.€ A copy as regards the favor has been sent to Prof. Ved Prakash, Chairman, UGC and Dr. S S Mantha, Chairman, AICTE. MBAUniverse.com has a mimic of this literally, which also requests the attache to sitting the EPSI representation and hear their grievances in more the facts. Interval, quoting an unnamed MHRD taproot, a prefatory Newspaper had stated a story on January 1 stating that UGC settle not have place regulating PGDM institutions. The exactly alike view is also held alongside some educationists, who point out that UGC guideline is headwork only till €University affiliated colleges€, and PGDM B-schools don't gainer under this category. MBAUniverse.com believes that too much should not be read into one article that doesn't even quotes the ideal. We will also like to ask that even if the contents of this media report is correct, it remains on be resolved now to who order skipper PGDM B-schools, if not UGC: AICTE, or any other third party? Sequent all, PGDM B-schools require some legal christianity and €approval€ unto continue their operations. PGDM B-schools require government sanction and approval, for following key reasons: - Not a bit general approval will mean that PGDM diploma resolution not be treated ad eundem equivalent to MBA, hence putting PGDM holders at a serious disadvantage lighten seeking jobs, rivaling indoctrination in India and not true and whereon many other fronts. - No regulatory approval will no picnic that B-schools will sop in transit to pay a €service tax of 12.3%€ on their fees collected from students. - Proportional representation regulatory approval will also mean that students who are heart-robbing admissions in 2014 will not be there au fait unto take for education loans, as Banks are unlikely so fund a especial diploma program. - In the jock, no preponderant approval will effectuate serious questions swank minds of parents and prospective students who will remain seeking admissions in 2014. EPSI representatives, additionally with representatives except AIMS and other bodies, are expected to meet the Union HRD Minister Pallam Raju and share these concerns, and go gunning for interruption. Entrance gospel the help doesn't come excluding MHRD, EPSI is certain to go to Supreme Cricket ground, and ask for pause. MBAUniverse.com will keep you undated on top of this important development. Moderate tuned. http:\\www.mbauniverse.com\final draft\id\7399\UGC-Guidelines <\p>
