New Delhi: Universities and colleges across the country should consider restricting political activities inside the campus, former cabinet secretary TSR Subramanian headed panel has said.
The panel, which was set up by the HRD Minster Smriti Irani to formulate the new National Education Policy, has expressed concerns over the increasing number of protests and other disruptive movements.
“Agitations, disturbances, gheraos and other disruptive movements are being increasingly witnessed on campuses with potential to interfere with normal academic activities. As a result of this, examinations often get delayed or postponed. These disturbances are generally caused by a small section of politically active students and work to the detriment of the majority of serious students,” Indian Express quoted the panel.
The panel also recommended that educational institutions should consider derecognising student groups based on “explicitly on caste and religion” and also restrict the period for which students can stay on campus.
The suggestion is significant against the backdrop of the recent protests in universities such as JNU and HCU.
Earlier, Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu had objected to campus politics in the wake of the Jawaharlal Nehru University and Hyderabad Central University controversies.
