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None can stop BHU-IT from becoming an IIT
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By Rajiv Shukla
VARANASI: One thing is sure! Nothing can stop the BHU-IT from becoming an Indian Institute of Technology -- neither the tricky BHU Executive Council resolution nor the "king's horses" or "the king's men."
The Ministry of Human Resource Development, the Government of India, the public opinion and the stake-holders' interest have traveled too far to take an about turn. None in BHU can now set the clock back -- that's for sure.
What matters is the timing. This writer can, after assessing the documents on record, fix an upper time limit -- and that's that March 13, 2009 may well be the last time that the BHU Vice-Chancellor may be signing the BHU-IT degrees.
The process of BHU-IT conversion, in fact, started as an BHU-IT amalgamation in 1971 when BHU-IT was included in the Joint Entrance Examination. The process of conversion started 30 years later in 2003 when the MHRD minister Murli Manohar Joshi constituted the S K Joshi committee to study the feasibility of conversion. Since then the Anand Krishnan committee, the Planning Commission and the Central government and others have committed themselves to the conversion plan to such an extent that the retrieval is impossible.
The BHU resolution on BHU-IT conversion
The resolution of the BHU Executive Council, passed on February 22 at the hurriedly called meeting is a typical example of heads-I-win-tails-you-lose mindset. It approves the take-over but imposes the terms that would be unacceptable to the Centre and the IIT system. The very construction of the resolution smacks of street-smart cunningness that, in effect, says that all the liabilities of the BHU-IT should be borne by the IIT vis-à-vis central government and all the assets should stay with the BHU and its bosses. Take it or leave it!
Read the following paragraphs of the resolution and you will understand what I mean. It says:
"All liabilities of the Institute of Technology, BHU shall be transferred to, and be the liabilities of, the Indian Institute of Technology BHU, Varanasi;" and
"The Board, as defined in the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961, shall have the Vice Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University as its Chairman"
Those interested to know the details read on. For readers I have given hyperlinks to the BHU Act and the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961.
Proposal to insert a new sub-section (3) in Section 3 of the BHU Act.
(1) The Chancellor and the Vice-Chancellor and the members of the Court, the Executive Council and the Academic Council, for the time being, shall be a body corporate by the name of the Banaras Hindu University.
(2) The university shall have perpetual succession and a common seal. and shall sue, and be sued, by the name first aforesaid.
(3) Except as aforesaid, the Institute of Technology, established under the Statutes, shall on incorporation under the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961, shall be governed in terms of the provisions of the said Act on and from the commencement of the Institutes of Technology (Amendment Act, ---------- subject to the following conditions :
a) The Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, on such incorporation, be called the Institute of Technology BHU, Varanasi;
Additions/substitutions in the IIT Act
a) In respect of the IIT-BHU, Varanasi the body corporate shall be the Banaras Hindu University.
b) Any reference to the Institute of Technology, BHU in any law shall be deemed as a reference to the Indian Institute of Technology BHU, Varanasi;
c) All liabilities of the Institute of Technology, BHU shall be transferred to, and be the liabilities of, the Indian Institute of Technology BHU, Varanasi;
d) The Board, as defined in the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961, shall have the Vice Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University as its Chairman;
e) The Board as defined in the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961, shall have two nominees, in addition to the composition defined in Section 11 of the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961, to be nominated by the Executive Council of the Banaras Hindu University.
f) The Senate, as defined in the Institutes of Technology Act 1961 shall have three nominees, in addition to the composition defined in Section 14 of the Institutes of Technology Act 1961, from the fields of Science, Humanities, Law and Medicine to be nominated by the Vice Chancellor, Banaras Hindu University.
Having suggested heads-I-win-tails-you-lose plan for the conversion of the BHU-IT, the Executive Council laid down the road map for conversion. See the following documents and you will understand the intricacies of the game plan:
Document 1, Document-2, Document-3, Document-4
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July 15, 2009 11:47 PM