Lok Sabha Question No. 2937 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-03-20
Subject: Training for University Officers
Ministry: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: BALASUBRAMANIAM SENGUTTUVAN

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2937 TO BE ANSWERED ON 20.03.2017

## Training for University Officers

## 2937 .  SHRI B. SENGUTTUVAN:

Will the Minister of HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has any proposal to put in place a comprehensive training module for the administrative officers of Central Universities in the country;
- (b) whether any administrative training sessions were conducted for the Vice Chancellors and  the  Registrars  of  the  various  Central  Universities  by  the  Indian  Institute of Management recently and if so, the details thereof; and
- (c) the details of aims and objectives of this management training module?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (DR. MAHENDRA NATH PANDEY)

- (a)  to (c): The Central Universities are autonomous bodies which are established under different Acts  passed  by  the  Parliament  and  are  regulated  by  respective  Acts  and  Statutes  made  thereunder. They keep on organizing or deputing their personnel for such training programmes at their own level from time to time.

A Conference  of  Vice  Chancellors  of  Central  Universities  was  organized  on  18th  February,  2016, which  was  also  participated  in  by  other  key  functionaries  like  Registrar,  Finance  Officer,  Dean Students'  Welfare,  Chief  Proctor  and  Chief  Warden  of  the  Universities  .      In  the  said  Conference, issues  of    sensitization  of  administrators  of  Central  Universities  about  understanding  and  handling issues faced by SC, ST and OBC students, promotion of equity, strengthening of grievance redressal system,  need  of  counseling  of  youth,  adequate  representation  of  weaker  sections  in  the  statutory bodies, prevention of sexual harassment, etc, were discussed at length with experts. Besides, several issues  relating  to  promotion  of  excellence  in  higher  education  like  regular  updation/revision  of curriculum, introduction of new/innovative programmes/subjects etc.  were also discussed in depth.

In  addition  to  this,  five  Regional  Conferences  of  2-days  each  were  organized  by  University  Grants Commission for senior functionaries of Central Universities on 'leadership for academic excellence in higher education' from 15 th April, 2016 to 26 th April, 2016 at Bangalore, Mumbai, Guwahati, Delhi and  Chandigarh.  Vice  Chancellors,  Pro  Vice  chancellors,  Registrars,  Finance  Officers,  Deans (Academic) and Dean (Students Welfare) of Central Universities  participated in  these  conferences. The issues related to (i) visionary leadership in higher education, (ii) vision to action: human resource implementation agenda and (iii) financial management in higher education were discussed for which modules were prepared and conducted by IIM (Indian Institute of Management) teams. Such issues were also discussed in Vice Chancellors' meeting held at Banaras Hindu University on 06.10.2016 and Visitor's Conferences held on 4 th -6 th November, 2015 and 16 th -18 th November, 2016.

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