Indore: A day after appointing Narendra Kumar Satsangi as its first Lokpal (ombudsman), Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya (DAVV) on Thursday announced plans to constitute student grievance redressal committees in colleges.
“Now that Lokpal has been appointed, the university will constitute student grievance redressal committees in colleges. By next week, the committees will be formed,” vice-chancellor Dr Narendra Dhakad said. The VC will also constitute grievance redressal committee consisting of five members for an individual college or a group of colleges.
The committee will comprise a senior university professor as chairman, three senior teachers drawn from the affiliating colleges and a student representative. There are about 280 colleges under DAVV. The V-C said they won’t be making committees for all the colleges individually. “For the colleges outside the city, the plan will to be form a group of around 10 colleges and make one common grievance committee for them. In city, we will make separate committee for each college,” Dhakad said.
The V-C has directed dean, students’ welfare, Laxmi Kant Tripathi to suggest the names of teachers for formation of committee. As per University Grants Commission (Student Grievance Redressal) Regulations 2012, every university should appoint a Lokpal who would redress complaints pertaining to admission, delay in exams and results, harassment etc.
The grievance committee will have a term of two years and it will communicate its decision to the complainant within 10 days of receipt of the complaint. Any person aggrieved by the decision of the committee may within a period of six days prefer an appeal to the Lokpal.
Student union prez to be in panel
Dhakad said that student union president of colleges will be one of the members in grievance committee of that college. “Whosoever is elected as president will be member in grievance committee. It will be good to see a student in the committee meant for addressing students’ grievances,” he added.