What is your opinion about the recommendation by the Yash Pal Committee on the Higher Education Commission (HEC)?
I consider the recommendations of the Yash Pal Committee as well as the recommendations of the National Knowledge Commission [NKC] as central to my reform in general. You have ordered a review of deemed universities. What is the scope of the review? It is not my intent to start punitive action against everybody or to close down institutions. The review is based on the premise that ultimately the system must deliver…. So, if the present deemed university system doesn’t deliver, it has to be made to deliver. If I have structural reform, then all deemed universities must fall in line within that structural reform. Then we will make sure quality is what these universities promised to the parents, that they deliver on their promise. One of the questions that have come up in this context is the dilution of standards for approving deemed universities. Why was this done in the first place? I don’t know. Again, I don’t go back to history on issues like this. If standards have been diluted, then
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