01-30-2009, 11:34 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->IIT Council meets today after 5 years
New Delhi: When the IIT Council meets on Wednesday, it will be the first and probably only meeting of the top governing body of all IITs during the tenure of Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh. The meeting convened at the fag end of the HRD ministerâs tenure, largely to avoid legal complications, will discuss a series of belated ratifications to âregulariseâ all the decisions and appointments that the Ministry made bypassing it.
The IIT Council last met in September 2003 before the UPA Government was formed. In the interim period, the HRD Ministry launched its expansion programme, creating six new IITs, granting extensions of terms for a majority of IIT directors and implementing 27 per cent OBC quota across all IITs â all these decisions were taken without being routed through the Council as has been mandated.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
New Delhi: When the IIT Council meets on Wednesday, it will be the first and probably only meeting of the top governing body of all IITs during the tenure of Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh. The meeting convened at the fag end of the HRD ministerâs tenure, largely to avoid legal complications, will discuss a series of belated ratifications to âregulariseâ all the decisions and appointments that the Ministry made bypassing it.
The IIT Council last met in September 2003 before the UPA Government was formed. In the interim period, the HRD Ministry launched its expansion programme, creating six new IITs, granting extensions of terms for a majority of IIT directors and implementing 27 per cent OBC quota across all IITs â all these decisions were taken without being routed through the Council as has been mandated.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->