Minutes of MANUUTA GBM held on 09.04.2009

15.04.2009
Ref: MANUUTA 09/15


To,
The Registrar
MANUU
Gachibowli
Hyderabad


Submission of II semester GBM Minutes

Sir,

I am submitting herewith the minutes of the II semester GBM held on 09.04.2009 at the CPDUMT auditorium. The meeting started at 4.30 p.m. after ensuring the required quorum was present.

The speakers in the meeting stressed on the strengthening of the Association and felt sorry for the non-co operational attitude of the administration. The meeting passed four resolutions with unanimous voice (Resolutions enclosed).

You are requested to implement the resolutions without delay, and acknowledge the same.


Thanking You

With Regards,
(Dr. Abdul Quayum)


RESOLUTION I

The General Body Meeting of MANUUTA held on 09.04.2009 at the CPDUMT Auditorium approves the decision of the Executive Council held on 09.03.2009 and ratifies the nomination of Dr.Tariq Masudi, Vice-President of the Association as the President for the remaining term, consequent to the resignation of elected president Prof. S.A. Wahab.

RESOLUTION II


The General Body Meeting of MANUUTA held on 09.04.2009 at the CPDUMT Auditorium demands the University authorities to make open the approved minutes of the University Executive Council and Academic Council after the meetings by keeping it in the library for one’s examination. A copy should also be marked to MANUUTA.

RESOLUTION III


The General Body Meeting of MANUUTA held on 09.04.2009 at the CPDUMT Auditorium demands that the academic vacations should be extended to all Centres/ Directorates of the University for the Staff who is appointed under the teaching cadre as per the guidelines.


RESOLUTION IV


The General Body Meeting of MANUUTA held on 09.04.2009 at the CPDUMT Auditorium demands the University authorities to implement the 5 day week academic calendar, as most Central Universities have implemented the 5 day week schedule.



President Gen-Sec
MANUUTA MANUUTA

MANUUTA NEWSLETTER No. 3, Vol.1, Dated 08.04.09

MANUUTA NEWSLETTER No. 3, Vol.1, Dated 08.04.09

Dear Colleagues,

You are aware that the First General Elections took place on 06-09-2008 and the first duly elected body came into existence thereafter, and Prof. S.A. Wahab was elected as its president. Immediately after the elections, the Executive Council of the Association was formed by means of election in the concerned Depts / Directorates / Centres. Thus, a 21 member EC was constituted to guide and oversee the functioning of the office bearers. After consultation with the EC the Association submitted the first demand charter to the University authorities consisting of 15 demands on 03.12.2008. A second demand charter was submitted again on 12.03.2009 consisting of 5 more demands including the confirmation of services.

Apart from this, the Association has so far represented on various issues, particularly to mention, the implementation of revised TA as per the New PRC and against the Circular issued by the DR (Academics) regarding conditions for attending seminars, and release of 40% arrears. After the Association’s representation, 40% arrears were released in the first week of March 2009.

Official recognition from the University was granted to the Association after a long struggle and a letter of recognition was issued by the University on 05.03.2009 addressed to the then President of the Association. Unfortunately, the President resigned due to his new administrative responsibilities. The EC met on 09.03.2009 and decided to nominate the Vice–President as the Acting President of the Association. The GBM called on 09.04.2009 is for the approval of the EC decision.

Friends, the association is working peacefully by adhering to democratic values while appealing to the authorities to solve the problems of the teaching community. Unfortunately, the Association has not been getting the kind of attention and support from the authorities that a Teacher’s Association deserves. Except for granting a formal recognition on paper, the authorities have so far not cared to reply to any of the letters/demand charters given by the Association. Moreover, innumerable time’s verbal assurances were given to the office bearers by the Authorities but not a single demand has been accepted and implemented so far. This is an appeal to all of you to help strengthen ourselves and fight against the ongoing indifferent attitude of the authorities towards the teaching faculty and to make MANUU a respectable place for Teachers.

Please attend the GBM on 09.04.2009 at the CPDUMT auditorium at 4 p.m. and participate in the decision making process.

Ashwani
Publicity Sec, MANUUTA

Implementation of Travelling Allowance Rules - MANUUTA Letter to Registrar

To,
The Registrar,
MANUU

Sub: Implementation of Travelling Allowance Rules and Revised Conveyance Allowance as per VI Pay Commission Recommendations – Reg

Sir,

I am to inform you that the University of Hyderabad has implemented the revised travelling allowance rules and revised conveyance allowance as per the VI Pay Commission recommendations after the due permission from the UGC and Ministry of Finance and Expenditure. To this effect a circular was issued by the Registrar of University of Hyderabad dated 27th Feb 2009.

In view of this precedence I request you to implement the same traveling allowance and conveyance allowance rules in our university too so that the staff of our university tarvelling for academic purpose and on vacations can avail the benefits of revised pay commission recommendations.

I hope your circular to this effect will be issued at the earliest. A copy of the document from the University of Hyderabad is enclosed herewith for your kind perusal.

With Warm Regards,

Dr. Abdul Quayum

Gen-Sec, MANUUTA

Awami Policy (Public Policy) - New Book in Urdu by Dr. Abdul Quayum

Dr. Abdul Quayum, Reader in the Dept of Political Science and Public Administration has come out with a new book titled Awami Policy (Public Policy). The book has been published by MANUU and will prove to be extremely useful for students and researchers dealing with governance and public policy.


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(The MANUUTA Blog requests MANUUTA members to please send in scanned cover pages of recent books authored/edited by them. Please do write a couple of lines about the book and its contents. We would be delighted to post them on the blog for the benefit of all. You can send in the information to our email ID : manuuta@gmail.com -Thanks, MANUUTA Blog Administrator)

NAAC Report on MANUU - The Full Report Card !

The NAAC report on the performance of the University is out. Here are the important recommendations of the Peer Team. Click here to download the full report :

Section IV: Recommendations for Quality Enhancement of the Institution

1. Starting of a few more multidisciplinary and multidimensional courses.
2. Erecting wi-fi campus and digital library on full scale.
3. More hostel accommodations for boys and girls.
4. To enhance global competency, proficiently in English to be encouraged.
5. More Courses in innovative and job oriented areas to be introduced.
6. Adequate transport facility for students to be provided.
7. Research activity needs to be strengthened.
8. Greater availability of quality text books in Urdu.
9. Separate publication unit to be established.
10. Coordination between teaching faculty and content creators required.
11. Institutionalization of career guidance and placement activities.
12. Library hours to be increased.
13. More effective institute-society-industry interaction to be encouraged.
14. Adoption of innovations in teaching-learning process with ICT aids.
15. Regular training of faculty, staff and students in the use of computers.
16. Collection, preservation and Research on rare Urdu manuscripts to be undertaken.

Prof. Shamimm Jairajpuri made Chairman of High Power Appeals Committee of NAAC

Prof. M. Shamimm Jairajpuri, former Vice Chancellor of Maulana Azad National Urdu University, (MANUU), has been appointed Chairman of the High Power Appeals Committee of the National Assessment and Accreditation Council, (NAAC).

This Committee has been formed by NAAC to address the grievances of the accredited Universities and institutes pertaining to their grading and other related matters.

The Committee was constituted by Prof. G. Mehta, Chairman, EC, NAAC. Prof. Suranjan Das, Vice Chancellor, University of Calcutta and Prof. Rupa Shah, former Vice Chancellor, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai are the two other members of the Appeals Committee of NAAC while Dr. Jagannath Patil, Deputy Advisor, NAAC is the Member Convener of the Committee.

Prof. Yash Pal Committee on Renovation and Rejuvenation of Higher Education

The Union HRD ministry may have downgraded the status of the 27-member Yash Pal Committee to an advisory body, but the panel has lashed out at the ministry on more than a dozen fronts in its final report. It has slammed the ministry for its “nervous and hurried response in starting new central universities’’, permitting “chaotic expansion in higher education’’, allowing undergraduate education to rot and swallowing autonomy through “intrusive bureaucracy and mindless regulation’’. The report has attacked the private and public higher education space of the country which neither “excites students’’ nor “equips graduates for the real world’’. Naturally, the report has not enthused the HRD ministry. It has asked committee members to “generate public opinion by holding discussions on reforming higher education across the country’’.

Early last month, the Yash Pal committee was informed that the Union HRD ministry had whittled down its position to an advisory body, but members stuck to their recommendations and the original terms of reference. When the octogenarian educationist personally handed over a copy of the report to HRD minister Arjun Singh, sources said, he was told that the election code of conduct had set in and he could take his report and hold discussions on reforming higher education across the country.

A copy of the final report vilifies all regulatory inspectors and notes that poor reforms have been the main culprit of several wrong goings in higher education. In these tough times, the panel points out one more bankruptcy—the one in the country’s intellectual banks, universities. While traditional universities, it notes, did not “create public confidence’’, private institutes have been reduced to “commercial entities of very low quality’’. Recent expansion in higher education, the report says, has not looked at the “impoverished undergraduate education’’ that caters to 6 million students who pass through a system which has “not renewed itself and has not provided opportunities to students’’.

This is what the Yash Pal committee had to tell the ministry for the latest kids on the block—15 central universities: “The fear of loss of agency of the university and the pressures of the ever-expanding demand for quality education have been met with a nervous and hurried response. Creation of a few institutions of excellence and some central universities, without addressing the issue of deprivation that the state-funded universities are suffering from, would only sharpen the existing inequalities. Mere numerical expansion, without an understanding of the symptoms of poor education would also not help.’’

The 27-member Yash Pal panel constituted in February last year has drawn up 14 recommendations in critical areas and defined a clear role and structure for the single body commission for higher education that would replace the host of other regulatory outfits like the University Grants Commission, the All India Council for Technical Education, the Medical Council Of India, Bar Council of India, Council of Architecture, Indian Nursing Council, Pharmacy Council of India and the National Council for Teacher Education. Some of the important recommendations of the Committee are:

1. Universities to be self-regulatory bodies, assisted by hassle-free and transparent regulatory processes.
2. Universities to be made responsible regarding the academic content of professional courses.
3. Professional bodies like AICTE, MCI, INC, NCTE to be divested of their academic functions, which would be restored to universities.
4. Curricular reforms to be the topmost priority of the commission for higher education.
5. Undergraduate programmes to be restructured to allow mobility .
6. No single discipline or specialised university to be created.
7. IITs and IIMs to be converted to fullfledged universities.
8. New governing structures in university to preserve autonomy in a transparent and accountable manner.
9. Single accreditation window for all higher education institutes.
10. Quantum of central financial support to state universities to be enhanced.
    

What makes the panel report all the more controversial is its recommendation of not just doing away with deemed universities, but also downing shutters of existing lowgrade ones. “Practice of according status of deemed university be stopped forthwith. It would be mandatory for all existing deemed universities to submit to the new accreditation norms within three years failing which the status of university should be withdrawn,’’ the report states.