Panel set up to frame norms to stop sexual harassment
VCs Of Madras Univ, TNOU Also On Board
Nivedha.Selvam1@timesgroup.com 21.04.2018
Coimbatore: In wake of the Devanga college scandal, the higher education department has formed a committee to draft guidelines to prevent sexual harassment in educational institutions.
“The committee will submit the guidelines on Monday. The higher education department, in consultation with the higher education minister, would finalise the guidelines. It would be issued to the universities and colleges within a week,’’ higher education secretary Sunil Paliwal told reporters here on Friday.
“The committee has vicechancellors of Madras University and Tamil Nadu Open University as members. It is expected to recommend detailed guidelines to avoid suspected exploitations of students like in Devengar College in Arupukottai. A strong grievance redressal mechanism would be established in the college-level. The committee would study the problems faced by students as well as staff and would also take into account University Grants Commission (UGC) guidelines while preparing the report. The committee members would also consult the higher education minister on drafting the guidelines. We are also considering to establish a formal mechanism at state-level,” Paliwal said.
As the VCs of Alagappa University and Annamalai University are getting ready to retire, the department has already formed a search committee as part of the VC selection procedure, Paliwal said, adding that apart from the prescribing qualification changes, the selection procedure was not changed.
About ₹3crore has been allotted to construct a new building for the English department and computer application department at Bharathiar University. Multiple centres worth ₹15.5 crores are under construction on the university premises.
With the sanction given by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), the university is to get ₹20crore under second phase of the Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) fund. It had received ₹20 crore under phase one.
VCs Of Madras Univ, TNOU Also On Board
Nivedha.Selvam1@timesgroup.com 21.04.2018
Coimbatore: In wake of the Devanga college scandal, the higher education department has formed a committee to draft guidelines to prevent sexual harassment in educational institutions.
“The committee will submit the guidelines on Monday. The higher education department, in consultation with the higher education minister, would finalise the guidelines. It would be issued to the universities and colleges within a week,’’ higher education secretary Sunil Paliwal told reporters here on Friday.
“The committee has vicechancellors of Madras University and Tamil Nadu Open University as members. It is expected to recommend detailed guidelines to avoid suspected exploitations of students like in Devengar College in Arupukottai. A strong grievance redressal mechanism would be established in the college-level. The committee would study the problems faced by students as well as staff and would also take into account University Grants Commission (UGC) guidelines while preparing the report. The committee members would also consult the higher education minister on drafting the guidelines. We are also considering to establish a formal mechanism at state-level,” Paliwal said.
As the VCs of Alagappa University and Annamalai University are getting ready to retire, the department has already formed a search committee as part of the VC selection procedure, Paliwal said, adding that apart from the prescribing qualification changes, the selection procedure was not changed.
About ₹3crore has been allotted to construct a new building for the English department and computer application department at Bharathiar University. Multiple centres worth ₹15.5 crores are under construction on the university premises.
With the sanction given by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), the university is to get ₹20crore under second phase of the Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) fund. It had received ₹20 crore under phase one.
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