RESOURCES
REVIEW OF EDUCATION POLICY
Suggestions received on Social Justice
1) Those who can afford to pay for higher education have to
be made to bear full expenses.
2) Bright and deserving children of middle classes and
weaker sections of society may be exempted not only from
fees but be given stipend.
3) Private, institutions which come forward without
governmental financial support may be enabled to run
institutions, pay salaries and charge fees as they like.
4) Resources for higher education be re-allocated more in
favour of science, applied engineering and technical
fields.
5) UGC grants to university departments should be specific
and problem oriented.
Name : Prin. M C Shan, 'Ojas'
Address : Behind Liberty Hotel,
Navrangpura, Ahmedabad- 380009
Date of Communication : 25/06/90
Category : Other Individual letter
1) Allocation of funds for education be to the extent of 25
percent of the national income.
Name : Dr. N S Das Bahl,
Address : 114-A Pkt. A DDA FSF Flats,
Sukhdev Vihar, New Delhi
Date of Communication : 22/05/90
Category : Other Individual letter
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REVIEW OF EDUCATION POLICY
Suggestions received on Resources
1) University/autonomous bodies may be subject to public
accountability and their reports need to be placed
before the public Accounts Committee for evaluation.
2) To check the misuse of envowments created for the
private educational institutions be brought within the
purview of provident fund/Govt. Securities, for the
purposes of resource mobilisation.
3) Amounts raised from students be accounted for by
appropriate bodies. Bodies responsible for granting
affliation be held responsible for ensuring financial
soundness.
4) Resource allocation be made on the basis of number of
students within the college. Also the resources be
bifurcated for teaching, training and research in a
rational manner.
Name : Workshop Organised by the
Address : Academic Staff College, Deptt.
of Adult & contd- (Rajasthan)
Date of Communication : 30/06/90
Category : Seminar Proceeding
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REVIEW OF EDUCATION POLICY
Suggestions received on Resources
1) At least six per cent of the GNP or ten per cent of the
Union Budget should be spent on education. States
should spent 30 per cent of their Budget on education.
Name : Progressive Students Union,
Address : West Bengal State Committee,
47 Surya Sen St. Calcutta
Date of Communication : 12/07/90
Category : Organisation
1) The responsibility for additional funds for the
expansion and improvement in education comes on the
society and particularly so at the District level.
2) The District Advisory Board on Education should be
empowered to raise resources in terms of money, material
and services from the local society keeping in view
their expansion and emprovement programmes.
3) The donations etc. from the public should be considered
as an approved source of educational finance and proper
accounts of the same should be maintained in the same
way as of other govt. money.
Name : Vidya Bharati,
Address : Akhil Bharatiya Sanskrit Gyan
Pariksha, S Bhavan, Kurukshetra
Date of Communication : 27/07/90
Category : Organisation
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