Stalin to chair meeting with V-Cs, Registrars on April 16

Stalin to chair meeting with V-Cs, Registrars on April 16

The Hindu Bureau

Chennai 14.04.2025

Chief Minister M.K. Stalin will hold a consultative meeting with Vice-Chancellors (V-Cs) and Registrars of all State universities at the Secretariat on April 16.

An official release said the agenda of the meeting would be about improving higher education in the State.

This comes in the wake of the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling last week that various Bills pertaining to universities, re-adopted by the Assembly and pending with the President, were deemed to have been granted assent.

The meeting has been called a day after the State government notified 10 university-related Acts. They were the first Bills to become laws without the assent of the President or the Governor. Though the Chief Minister had chaired meetings with V-Cs of State-run universities in the past too, the upcoming meeting assumes significance in the light of the Supreme Court judgment.

It is to be noted that the demand for grants for the Higher Education Department for 2025-26 is scheduled to be taken up for discussion and approval in the Assembly on April 24.

Meanwhile, officials of the department said that the notification of the Acts was expected to ensure that V-Cs, who were appointed by Governor R.N. Ravi, adhered to the government’s directions. There were instances where some V-Cs refused to pay heed to directions of the Higher Education Department.

Moreover, Mr. Ravi, during conferences, strongly advocated for implementing the National Education Policy (NEP). “The Governor hailed the NEP 2020 as a comprehensive, revolutionary and transformative policy. His advocacy of the NEP was at variance with the stand of the Tamil Nadu government, which constituted its own committee to draft an exclusive State Education Policy,” an official said.