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By: Aarti Dhar
The Government has proposed that foreign universities coming to India will have to collaborate with Indian academic institutions so that in case of any legal dispute, the settlement will be done in the country itself, Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani told All India Radio (AIR) in an exclusive interview on Tuesday. Ms. Irani also said that the government will soon come out with a new Education policy to promote quality education in the country. She said, views and suggestions of various stakeholders including Education Councils have been considered to prepare the policy. The Minister said that the Committee set up for the purpose will submit the Draft Policy within 15 to 20 days.
On the issue of suicide by a research scholar in Hyderabad University, the Minister said, the issue was politicized. She said, the aim of her Ministry is to ensure that the Universities are not used as a tool for political purposes and remain temple of learning. She said the HRD Ministry will soon launch a web portal – Bharatvani - which will contain various subjects, ranging from teaching to learning in 22 Indian languages. She said, next year the facilities will be extended to one hundred languages.
"Our effort is to launch a programme "Swayam" which will be unique in the country under which IITs, IIMs, NITs and Central universities diploma certificate courses and even 12th class board exams' syllabus will be available on this portal and mobile app. Our aim is to make it available in ten Indian languages in the first year of its launching. This programme will make all this information available free. We are going to open 1,000 examination centres across the country and any citizen studying with the help of this portal and mobile app will be able to register and obtain certification after passing. Our Prime Minister's dream of 'Digital India' can be realised through such programmes in education sector such as "Swayam," she said.
Mrs Irani also said that six research parks are being set up through Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in the country which is doubled than the research parks set up during 2004 to 2014. The HRD Minister said, the aim of the Ministry is to impart quality education to the students and to make it affordable.
"Our aim is that education should contribute towards nation building and to realise this dream me and our department's officers are determined to not to waver from our path. This is natural that challenges will be there but we are capable to meet and solve them," she added. To a question if she was satisfied over handling of the situation that developed in NIT, Srinagar, Ms. Irani said those students who wanted to take exams on time were given the facility and similarly who wanted them postponed were also accommodated.
"Perhaps it was for the first time in history that a Central ministers was talking to parents on phone and solved their problems," she said. She felt that state governments also have to shoulder their responsibilities in such situations as law and order happens to be their subject. "However, our effort is to solve the issue with dialogue and discussion with the concerned students, parents or if the issue pertains to the state government then engaging it in a dialogue and finding a solution," she added.
Referring to the possibility of setting up more higher education institutions like the IIMs and IITs, Mrs. Irani said that the way Prime Minister was working, it indicates the government's aim to build newer institutions but at the same time improve the existing education system. "It is said that God is in details..so you will see that alongside the newer institutions, the government will aim at meeting even small challenges relating to education and show courage to turn them into opportunities and it will be visible this year itself," the HRD Minister said.
On achievements of the HRD Ministry, Mrs. Irani felt that the present government's collaborative approach to meet the challenges and the Prime Minister's slogan of cooperative federalism and exhortation that everybody has to be taken along if the nation has to progress finds reflection in her ministry.
"For example, provision of separate toilets for girls in each and every government school in the past one year goes on to show how collaborative efforts can work and meet challenges," she said.
"Another example of our coordinated and collaborative effort with the state governments which resulted in speeding up recruitment of teachers. If you look at the figures in 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14, you will find that in the last two years of the previous government about 40,000 teachers were recruited, and on the other hand our government which is nearing two years in office and has been able to recruit about one lakh teachers across the country because we were constantly in discussions with the state governments,'' the HRD Minister said.
(Courtesy: All India Radio. This interview with HRD Minister was conducted by Aarti Dhar for AIR.)
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