The Central Information Commission (CIC) has frequently pulled up statutory bodies for not pro-actively disclosing authenticated orders on their websites, arguing that Section 11 authentication should be the start of the communication process, not the end.
11. UGC Act: Section 10
The UGC’s lack of professional, independent administrative staff, in influence of the slow-moving Government Rule machinery has hindered its ability to regulate a 21st-century education market.
11. UGC Act: Section 10
The UGC’s lack of professional, independent administrative staff, in influence of the slow-moving Government Rule machinery has hindered its ability to regulate a 21st-century education market.
10. UGC Act: Section 9
An associated person might be a professor from a private university giving advice on regulations that affect their own institution.
9. UGC Act: Section 8
But the Act is silent on vacancy of Chairman or Vice-Chairman of the Commission. In absence of these two leadership posts who will be authorized to sign on behalf of them?
Why India Failed to Implement Hindi as Medium of Instruction in Higher Education? : Case of Gujarat: Part 4
Article 29(1) confers a fundamental right upon a section of citizens residing in India or any part thereof having a distinct language, script or culture of its own to conserve the same. Clause (2) of Article 29 prohibits a denial of admission to educational institutions maintained by the State Or receiving aid out of State funds on the ground only of religion, race, caste, language or any of them.
Why India Failed to Implement Hindi as Medium of Instruction in Higher Education? : Case of Gujarat: Part 3
Statute 209 replaced English with Gujarati/Hindi for exams/instruction by 1955–56 but allowed temporary English use until 1961. The anomaly persisted: students could write exams in English without English-medium instruction, leading to mismatched learning and assessment, causing academic challenges.
Why India Failed to Implement Hindi as Medium of Instruction in Higher Education? : Case of Gujarat: Part 3
Statute 209 replaced English with Gujarati/Hindi for exams/instruction by 1955–56 but allowed temporary English use until 1961. The anomaly persisted: students could write exams in English without English-medium instruction, leading to mismatched learning and assessment, causing academic challenges.
Why India Failed to Implement Hindi as Medium of Instruction in Higher Education? : Case of Gujarat: Part 2
The power of the University to promote the use of Gujarati and/or Hindi as "a medium of instruction" in Section 4(27) has reference only to those institutions which are established and maintained by the University in pursuance of its teaching function and not to colleges over which it exercises a certain amount of control prescribed under the Act by reason of affiliation and the power of the University to hold examinations to lay down as incidental thereto approved courses of studies and to confer degrees etc.
MRPS Act: Part 4
The Government is also responsible for constituting the Maharashtra State Commission for Right to Services under Section 13(1) by notification in the Official Gazette, appointing the Chief Commissioner and Commissioners through a high-level committee, and providing necessary staff, infrastructure, and administrative support for the Commission's functioning.
