The enrolment in PhDs jumped 50% between 2011 and 2017, leading UGC to invite proposals for a six-month study to assess the quality of theses in the past decade.
The UGC's comments follow allegations by the student body that JNU was trying to impose Hindi in undergraduate courses, an accusation the varsity has denied.
Private Universities Bill is set to be tabled in budget session of Parliament. It will bring in caste-based reservation as well as the new 10% EWS quota.
Forest Research Institute Deemed University in Dehradun has never been headed by an academic. All its V-Cs are officers from the Indian Forest Services.
In 2024-25, India exported $387.54 bn worth of services, against imports of $198.14 bn, earning all-time high surplus of $189.40 bn. This offset 2/3rd of goods trade deficit.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
Good move. The IAS was behaving as if they were the masters hardly respecting officers from other services who are equally or more competent and who have also faced the same type of gruelling selection process. Very good that technocrats and professionals are being given their due now. At last the hegemony of IAS is being dismantled.
Wish he would have picked up few from der servies too..
obviously IAS lobby won’t like it
Who needs them anyway ..
Our tehnocrats …other specialists in own field can produce better results …eg space .
Good move. The IAS was behaving as if they were the masters hardly respecting officers from other services who are equally or more competent and who have also faced the same type of gruelling selection process. Very good that technocrats and professionals are being given their due now. At last the hegemony of IAS is being dismantled.
Wish he would have picked up few from der servies too..
obviously IAS lobby won’t like it
Who needs them anyway ..
Our tehnocrats …other specialists in own field can produce better results …eg space .