Cabinet withdraws higher education bill

India’s cabinet last month withdrew the Higher Education Research Bill 2011 that sought to create an overarching regulator for higher education, replacing the University Grants Commission, the All India Council for Technical Education, the National Council for Teacher Education and the Distance Education Council, writes Prashant K Nanda for Livemint.

This is the first instance of the new National Democratic Alliance government scrapping important draft legislation that was introduced in parliament by the previous United Progressive Alliance government.

The bill, introduced in December 2011 by then human resource development minister Kapil Sibal, sought to create a national commission for higher education and research as an independent statutory body in education. The bill sought to give all powers related to higher education to the proposed commission even though education is a sector controlled by both the union and the state governments.
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