Autonomy

Even during the visit by the committee a number of teachers staged a protest.

As per the UGC Guidelines for Autonomous Colleges, a college that comes under the scheme launched last year can determine and prescribe its own courses, restructure and redesign its syllabus, and become skill-oriented in consonance with job requirements. It can also fix fees of the courses. An autonomous college is also empowered to prescribe admission rules in accordance with prevalent reservation policies, evolve methods to assess students’ performance, conduct examinations, even launch selffinancing courses.

Autonomy for a college also empowers it to announce results, issue mark sheets, and migration and other certificates. However, the degree will be awarded by the university with the name of the college on the degree certificate.

“This is a good move, I think...colleges need to be unshackled and have the freedom to formulate their own curriculum, syllabi and evaluation processes. The government has agreed to continue full financial support and the terms and conditions of service of faculty and support staff will remain the same. It will open doors for research collaboration and student and faculty exchange. The degree is to be given jointly by the college and the university so all round accountability will remain. So the college will have academic freedom but remain a part of the university,” said Kavita Sharma, former principal of Hindu college and current president of South Asian University.

Allaying the fears of students and teachers, the HRD ministry had earlier said that there will be no reduction in the government grants on account of autonomy. make calls. My daughter and I can’t even dial 100, we can only receive calls,” said the mother.

The rape took place on May 4 when the young woman was sitting alone on an abandoned cart outside her shanty. The door to the hut was burned in a fire recently. Her mother had gone to fetch water from a nearby restaurant, and her uncle was at work. She alleged that a local e-rickshaw driver had dragged her into a shanty where one or two men were already present. “The moment I was forced into the one of them gagged me,” she said, adding that she was gang raped by two-three men over a 20-minute period.

The police quickly arrested an e-rickshaw driver, identified as Chotu Pal, after the survivor identified him from his voice. MS Randhawa,dcp (central), told HT at the time that two other men were standing guard outside the shanty. They were detained for questioning, but later let off. On Thursday, however, the DCP said there was “some confusion” . “The victim has told the magistrate in her statement that there was only one man. We have gone by her statement and the contents of the FIR,” said the DCP.

The survivor claimed that after the crime, the police had asked her how many perpetrators she could identify. “I said I heard only one of them talking, so the police said there was only one man. There were more people in the shanty, but they weren’t speaking,” she said.