Union HRD minister, Prakash Javadekar has declared that the government is looking to bring in a system where the basis of autonomy will depend on performance. Maximum autonomy will be given to top performing higher educational institutions while the ones which lag behind will have more regulation.
Javadekar was addressing the convocation ceremony of TERI University in New Delhi where he commented that when it comes to deemed universities, there are some really good universities, some average ones and some which are bad. "I want to have different set of rules for them. And that should not depend on NAAC grading but National Ranking Framework that is also important.”
"Based on that, we want to give more autonomy and freedom to the best Universities, very little regulation. The average universities will have 50:50 and the bad universities will have 90 per cent regulation and ten per cent freedom," the HRD minister declared.
He added that the government is keen on improving the whole education scenario, be it deemed universities, private universities or state universities, "Anything, but that is how we want to take everybody along," the HRD minister said.
Prakash Javadekar has also held the environment ministry portfolio earlier, and denounced that development and sustainability can always go together in any initiative.
"Our goal is development without destruction," he said, emphasizing that stalling projects is not the solution. He also proclaimed that India’s contribution to carbon emissions was much lesser than several other countries of the world.