Gujarat University syndicate clears 9 more colleges

Gujarat University syndicate clears 9 more colleges

Ahmedabad: The Executive Council (Syndicate) of the Gujarat University on Friday agreed to grant permission to start nine colleges which will now be teaching BCom, BBA and BCA courses.
The university had received 98 applications of which 16 were shortlisted on the basis ofUGC guidelines. The decision was taken after committee members submitted a feasibility report to the executive council after their visit.
Apart from granting permission for new colleges, the executive council also passed a resolution for fresh recruitment in teaching and non-teaching posts and the need to get a no objection certificate for colleges to function properly.
Senior members of the executive council, Narhari Amin and Manish Doshi, said in a press release that there are several colleges which have been functioning without full-time staff which include academic and non-academic personnel. He said, once the government issues a no objection certificate (NOC) the process of recruitment would begin and colleges which are plagued by lack of staff can start recruiting.
Meanwhile, the members of the executive council also decided not to reduce the number of grant-in-aid seats in the post graduate courses like MA, MCom and MSc.
Apart from these seats new high-payment seats will be added. Meritorious students will be given scholarships. It may be recalled that recently this was a demand from Akhil Bhartiya Vidhyarthi Parishad (ABVP) student union leaders, which led to violence at the residence of vice chancellor of Gujarat University, Parimal Trivedi.
Members pointed out while the amount of payment seats for MEd was Rs55,000 with agreement from all members, the fee structure has been reduced by Rs10,000 and has been brought down to Rs45,000.
"This was one of the reasons for the flashpoint between the union leaders and the administration of the university which led to arguments," said Doshi. During the meting, the members also decided to reduce the number of payment seats from grant-in-aid colleges.
He further said, "At present there are several grant-in-aid colleges, which have seats which are on a payment basis, members have decided to oppose that and bring down the number of such payments seats and increase it in the general seats."

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