Lord Bhikhu Parekh, former vice-chancellor (VC) of M S University and member of United Kingdom's House of Lords has said that Gujarat governor should not sign the Gujarat State Higher Education Council (GSHEC) Bill 2016 in its current form.
Parekh, an eminent political theorist, told media persons here on Monday that the state government has not been able to build upon the foundation for development of higher education in the state that was laid by Prime Minister Narendra Modi when he was chief minister of Gujarat.
It was in 2013 that after Parekh gave a call, Modi had organized a higher education summit at Gandhinagar in which VCs all universities of Gujarat were invited to discuss the roadmap ahead for higher education in the state.
"I had thought that the education sector will get an impetus after that because Modi had laid the foundation for that during that summit. But there is discontinuity after Modi left Gujarat," he said.
Critical of the controversial provisions of the bill, Parekh said government dominance in the council in Gujarat is more compared to such councils formed in other states.
"The governing council itself will be headed by chief minister as its president, education minister as vice president and minister of state (education) as co vice president. There will be 15 government nominees including five VCs who will not be elected from amongst themselves but selected by the government. This is unacceptable," he said, ToI reported.
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