Will give autonomy to colleges in graded manner: Assam governor

GUWAHATI: Assam governor Prof Jagdish Mukhi on Monday presented the state’s views on implementation of National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, urging the President and Prime Minister to set up two central government institutions in Assam.
Governor Mukhi presented his views at a virtual meeting of governors’ conference which was graced by President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’, minister of state for education Sanjay Shamrao Dhotre and chairman of the committee for draft NEP Dr Kasturirangan.
Mukhi said that he has constituted a committee of selected vice-chancellors to study ways and means to suggest timelines and strategies for the implementation of NEP 2020, in the higher education sector in Assam.
The Assam governor said that the committee, constituted by him, had its first meeting recently and provided a series of recommendations. “A Rajyik Shiksha Aayog would be constituted in Assam for total implementation of the recommendations of NEP 2020,” he said.
Mukhi added that since multidisciplinary approach is the cornerstone of NEP, steps will be taken to convert the existing colleges in the state along with giving them autonomy in a graded manner. The governor also apprised that two new bills brought out in the first week of September for the establishment of two new universities, were suitably redrafted, in consonance with NEP 2020 and passed in the state assembly.