The University Grants Commission (UGC) member M M Ansari has slammed the Union Minister for Human Resource Development (MHRD) Minister Smriti Irani for her "excessive interference" in the functioning of the commission and for taking "arbitrary and abrupt" decisions.
The first such attack on the minister by a serving UGC member comes at a time when she is in the eye of a storm for her ministry's decision to scrap German as a third language in Kendriya Vidyalayas.
"There is excessive interference from the minister in the UGC. One saw it in the FYUP issue, or in the way the ministry first decided on the Swacch Bharat implementation in the education sector and then informed us and asked us to send a circular to universities, or in how she announced the Swami Vivekanand scholarship programme for a single girl child without consulting us. The ministry has been simply imposing decisions. Any decision of the UGC should emerge from an exercise within the UGC," Ansari said.
The former CIC termed Irani's decisions as being "very arbitrary" and "abrupt" and alleges she was "too assertive". Ansari, who has been a UGC member since 2012, also questioned Irani's capabilities to lead the crucial education sector.
"The minister has no exposure of the education system. She has to depend on notes from bureaucrats, who have been well-planted by the government in the ministry, and think tanks comprising those from RSS and BJP. So how will she interact with academicians if she does not know the issues? It is demoralising for us," he said, adding "all appointments were being made bypassing procedures," reported Indian Express.
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