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| UGC clarifies position of 'Specification of Degrees' | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 26: The University Grants Commission (UGC) has recently sent a circular to all the degree awarding institutions informing them about the Specification of Degrees which have been notified in the Gazette of India on July 5, 2014 with the approval of the Government of India.According to official statement from UGC, the aforementioned communication of the UGC has been misconstrued as an encroachment on the autonomy of Institutions of higher learning especially the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).
"In this connection, it may be clarified that the responsibility for specification of degrees to be awarded by different sets of institutions has been entrusted with the University Grants Commission (UGC) through its Act, 1956 in all domains of higher education, the new communiqué added.
It said that it may be appropriate to quote Section 22 of the UGC Act, 1956, which provides for "Right to confer degrees", as under:
"The right of conferring or granting degrees shall be exercised only by a University established or incorporated by or under a Central Act, A Provincial Act or a State Act or an institution deemed to be a University under section 3 or an institution specially empowered by an Act of Parliament to confer or grant degrees.
(a) Save as provided in sub-section (1), no person or authority shall confer, or grant, or hold himself or itself out as entitled to confer or grant, any degree.
(b) For the purposes of this section, "degree means any such degrees as may, with the previous approval of the Central Government, be specified in this behalf by the Commission by notification in the official Gazette."
The provision for specification of degrees by the University Grants Commission was a conscious decision taken by the Central Government for a number of reasons which not only includes ensuring the uniformity in terms of award of degrees but also for the purposes of employability and mobility of the students across the country.
UGC has been using a dynamic process for Specification of degrees since 1956. If a university/institution of national importance wishes to award a degree other than the one specified by the UGC then it can approach the UGC with its proposal with proper justification.
The proposal is duly examined by the UGC and accordingly if needed the list of specification of degree is upgraded after obtaining the approval of the Government of India. It may not be out of context to mention here that the University Grants Commission is the only statutory body in the country to specify degrees in all domains of knowledge including Engineering, Medicine, Agriculture, Exact Sciences, Humanities, Social Science, Languages, etc. |
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