#WATCH | Delhi | Karnataka Minister of Higher Education, MC Sudhakar says, "Our state and a few other states have some issues with draft regulations published by UGC... Earlier, the Vice Chancellor used to be selected with a consensus between the state government as well as the Chancellor. Now, UGC has recommended removing the state government representative from this decision... In the past 10 years, after Narendra Modi's government was formed in 2014, UGC hasn't had the financial power to support research activities... Last year, they (the central government) changed the RUSA scheme to PM-USHA, which is funded directly by the Education Department of the Indian government. UGC doesn't have any role to play in it. Another issue is the tenure of the Vice Chancellors increased from 3 years to 5 years... Earlier, UGC eligibility criteria for a Vice-Chancellor was a professor with 10 years of experience. Now they have changed it to a person who has 10 years of administrative experience in any industry... They're trying to bring in non-academic people... They're trying to indirectly bring their agenda slowly into the education system... The Department of Higher Education and Karnataka State Higher Education Council is organising a conclave for all the higher education ministers of this country to deliberate on such issues... We want to send a joint resolution to the Union Ministry... So many governments are opposed to these regulations. They don't want UGC to try to take control of all the universities, leaving the state governments unanswerable to the people."
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