Yash Pal Committee

The Ministry of Human Resource Development might be steadily moving towards implementation of important reforms recommended by the committee led by Prof. Yash Pal, but the latter does not seem to be amused by the way the ministry is going about the matter.

In the light of the latest Yash Pal Committee report the Allahabad University organised a seminar on the inauguration ceremony of the Lokmanya Tilak Bhawan; the topic for which was 'Perspective of higher education with relevance to Yashpal Committee report'. While many interesting opinions came to the fore, one which was intriguing was the fact that educationists and experts are seeking a national level debate on the recommendations of the report.

Though still in its gestation stage, National Commission for Higher Education and Research (NCHER) seem to be a really ‘hot’ seat with the country’s leading academicians frantically running around to procure its top positions. A few officials and academicians are found to cherish a post-retirement dream of holding key positions in the regulatory body. None other than Prof Vijay Khole, who was a member of the Yash Pal panel, which put forward the NCHER scheme in order to curtail nepotism within the Indian higher education sector, leads the scramble.
 

The structure and scope of the proposed National Commission for Higher Education and Research (NCHER) will be finalized soon by a multi-member task force, to be appointed by the Planning Commission.

The Union Government seems to be in a mood to please all parties before implementing the Yash Pal Committee report’s recommendations. It has now sought the views of state governments, statutory councils like the University Grants Commission (UGC) on the recommendations of the report on ‘Renovation and Rejuvenation of Higher Education’.
 

The Medical Council of India’s (MCI) recommendation for common entrance test (National CET) for the MBBS seats in all the colleges across the nation is not a new idea. The Supreme Court had propounded the concept of "admissions based on inter se merit" in PA Inamdar case four years ago. 

Prof. Yash Pal’s committee report titled Renovation and Rejuvenation of Higher Education in India that was submitted on June 25 before the HRD Ministry has recommended that India allows only the best foreign universities to enter the country in the higher education sector.

In the wake of the controversy surrounding the standards of the deemed universities, a high-level committee headed by noted educationist Prof. Yash Pal that had been set up to restructure higher education in the country, has recommended that education regulatory bodies  like the University Grants Commission (UGC), All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and Medical Council of India.