MP cabinet approves proposal to call V-Cs 'kulgurus’. 'Will it improve education quality?' asks Congress

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The cabinets approval, ahead of the state assembly session scheduled to start Wednesday, comes nearly three years after then higher education minister Mohan Yadav had mooted the proposal in September 2021 and stated that it would be implemented if approved by the cabinet.Yadav is now chief minister of the state...

The committee reflected on the procedure of change, as any change in nomenclature would have required an amendment to the Madhya Pradesh Vishwavidyalaya Adhiniyam, 1973, the parent Act that governs universities in the state...

Speaking to ThePrint, a second state government official pointed out that after the matter was approved at the 100th coordination meeting, it had to be sent for review of various departments such as law and finance for internal vetting, before it could be finally placed before the cabinet for approval...

According to state officials, instead of amending each independent legislation, a single amendment would be made to the parent Act with a clause that a similar change would be enforced across all universities, including the private ones...

Reacting to the decision of the cabinet, MP Congress chief Jitu Patwari, who held the portfolio of higher education under the Kamal Nath-led Congress government, said: Mohan Yadavji was also the minister of higher education and he should reflect on why the quality of education is so poor in MP..

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