Topic: Education Ministry
13,626 students from SC, ST, OBC groups dropped out of central varsities, IITs, IIMs since 2018
As many as 13,626 Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), Other Backward Class (OBC) students have dropped out of central universities, Indian Institutes of...
Union to appoint heads of five private deemed-to-be-varsities including TISS, students allege “Modi govt’s political move”
By giving power to itself, the Union government can now appoint higher officials and functionaries in the five deemed universities of India that were earlier being managed privately, claiming that these ‘institutions have been receiving a good amount of funds from the government but failed to respond to the queries raised by the Centre’.
