This has ref to Sri Joydip's post"Academic freedom is an important criteria for creating future human capital, for countries economic welfare in long term. It should not be comprised by narrow political objectives.""
We have to also realize as a community, that no freedom can be achieved and sustained, without collective effort and peaceful resistance towards entities who want to disrupt the freedom by force , and it pretty well fits with the criteria of Academic freedom too".
We have to also realize as a community, that no freedom can be achieved and sustained, without collective effort and peaceful resistance towards entities who want to disrupt the freedom by force , and it pretty well fits with the criteria of Academic freedom too".
My humble take:
What's academic freedom
?It's probably freedom in academic pursuits-knowing,teaching,learning,researching,consulting,questioning ,critiquing "GYAN!".
What's freedom?
It's oxymoron-which entails upon individual's self restraint.A real time story to elucidate my contention:.
A gentleman in central London in recession during II world told a lady:"Will you please mind your umbrella?" while her(standing ahead of him in Q for collecting ration ) umbrella's noke was piercing into his nostrils.Lady was furious and reprimanded the man saying"I'm a sovereign citizen of the most powerrful country called England &how dare you question my freedom".The man quipped""your freedom ends at the tip of my nose"
What the HR ministry is doing is probably what's gleaned through the gentleman's angst in this story.
India where teachers are selected based on reservations,Ph.D qualifications,political intervention etc etc -where only a miniscule are real merit,genuine passionate,pure conscientious,how can we allow (academic)FREEDOM?!
This apart,let me bring home to MTCian fraternity the most heinous crime committed by the previous regime which bestowed BHARAT RATNA on a person who indulged in plagiarism.What's most ridiculous is that some elite GYANIS defended this act saying that it's a one time and inadvertent offence ?!
Do we Indian's really deserve FREEDOM-let alone academic freedom !
Dr.S.Pratap Reddy
Founder Chairman
From: Sri Joydip <joydip.chakladar@gmail.com>
To: join_mtc <join_mtc@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, 29 November 2014 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: [MTC Global] Irani has excessive interference in UGC functioning, says Member
Yes .. this was expected and we have many discussion on it .
However , I feel we have now come into a Timezone , the education segment needs to show its dissent in a collaborative and democratic way and resist this excessive intervention of Government .
Academic freedom is an important criteria for creating future human capital, for countries economic welfare in long term. It should not be comprised by narrow political objectives.
We have to also realize as a community, that no freedom can be achieved and sustained, without collective effort and peaceful resistance towards entities who want to disrupt the freedom by force , and it pretty well fits with the criteria of Academic freedom too.
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On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Prof. Bholanath Dutta <bnath.dutta@gmail.com> wrote:
--It was bound to happen and happened at last. We had a discussion on the subject in the beginning and many shared the same views as the news follows and few were against.............Education is a serious sector and not like any other sectors. Here we make good human beings.-----------------------------------------------------------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.--EDUCATE, EMPOWER, ELEVATEProf. Bholanath DuttaFounder, President & ConvenerMTC Global I www.mtcglobal.orgCell: +91 96323 18178 / +91 81520 60465 / +91 7411716392
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