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‘Extend most favoured status to State varsities’

HYDERABAD: Reforms suggested by the Yashpal Committee, particularly the merger of all national educational bodies, will not solve the problems being faced by State universities where vast majority of students study, opined K.C. Reddy, Chairman, APSCHE.

Addressing a seminar on ‘Reforms in CBSE Class X Examinations and Prof. Yashpal Committee Report on Higher Education,’ organised by Vidyarthi Seva Samithi at Osmania University on Thursday, Prof. Reddy said majority of funds available for higher education were being earmarked for Central universities, IITs and IIMs where only a few study.

It was unfair to expect lot from State universities giving meagre funds, he said and demanded that most favoured status be also extended to State universities.

On the autonomy issue, he said there was a need to establish a system of accountability.

Without checks and balances irresponsibility creeps in and that cannot be accepted.

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