More Responsive Behavior is expected on
Behalf of Government
Every government conducts its
operations by distributing different tasks into various subordinate bodies,
each having certain responsibilities to handle. If any misconduct of operations
has taken place there then it may lead to a lot of controversies or conflicts
making the things go haywire. The Indian Government’s responsible body for
higher education maintenance and management is University Grant Commission
(UGC) that approves and certifies universities all over India. There are
numerous universities across India having the approval of UGC that are guiding
many ambitious Indian and foreign students to fulfill their desire of getting
higher educational degrees. Although status of Indian higher education
throughout the country is quite okay but in some part, especially in the
north-eastern regions, it is very concerning as the things are. This is mainly
because of the ignorance on the part of government & UGC making the
conditions miserable for students of India and abroad.
Recently, Maharashtra Government issued
a circular to cancel all the promotions and increments as well as appointments of
people carrying the degrees awarded by Meghalaya-based CMJ (Chandra Mohan Jha) University. The government states that nearly
4000 PhD and M. Phil. degrees awarded by CMJ University have been found to be
Fake and the university officials are using fraudulent means to award the
degrees to students. These cancellations have created whole lot of controversies
as people claim that if the government has found CMJ University not following certain
UGC norms then how come UGC had approved the affiliation of CMJ University and
had permitted the university to award degrees? Those who are having the CMJ
University Degrees say that it is the task of government to ensure whether the
university is following all the norms before UGC approves or not ? Any person
who takes an admission into some higher degree course is not responsible for
the mistakes committed by government bodies. These people also find the steps
of government conflicting because on one hand the UGC, itself a government
body, grants approval to universities where the appointments, promotions and
increments are being cancelled by government on the other hand. On the part of
students there is no wrong step because they take admission into a university
only if it features in the list of UGC approved universities.
About the CMJ University Degrees the
controversies don’t stop here as Union Minister of Human Resource Development
Mr. M Pallam Raju stated that strict actions must be taken against the CMJ
University. There is a huge uproar against this in the people possessing CMJ
University Degrees. These people say why Mr. Raju didn’t feel the urge of
taking some stringent action against UGC or AICTE the higher responsible bodies
instead of stating to take the actions only against the CMJ University. It’s
well known a statement that “Might is
Right”. So, shall it be considered that because the government cannot deal with
the flaws in its own system therefore it wants to hide the inability of system
by taking actions against the bodies like CMJ University? The people say that
it is considerable if they cancel the approval of CMJ University to award
degrees further in future but it is no wise decision to cancel the degrees
which people have already acquired as it will destroy their future and will
carry no compensation for the time they have invested in acquiring the degrees.
Always it is thought that a higher body
means it should take more responsibilities than a lower one. So, people expect
the UGC to stand and take up the matter rather than leaving it to the CMJ
University only to deal with the things. The Maharashtra Education Minister
said that an FIR should be lodged against those who got an appointment on the
basis of these degrees citing Section 8(4) of Maharashtra Universities Act,
1994. This is another reason for the people’s disappointment as they find no
mistakes on their behalf. Also, the uproar in people is because of one other
reason that their degrees are being called Fake while the UGC itself has
permitted the CMJ University to award them. Yes, the degrees may be invalidated
by government but why to punish those who are not the reasons behind this show;
most of the people ask this question.
Overall, as the things stand, the
government is not able to deal with the lapses in its own system and trying to wrap
up the huge issue by accusing those who either don’t belong to their system or
who are helpless because of the various rules and regulations but the students’
point is right that the government should conduct an out and out scrutiny
inside out.
So in this entire case, government body
is one, who is solely responsible for everything but what about those students,
who had having CMJ degree and who are currently studying from CMJ University.
Being a policy maker, we just want to ask a question to the policy maker from
government body, why they have not enquired, when the case have already logged
in 2012 by Chennai government. so why government has not taken any action
against CMJ University and who will be responsible for those students.
