HEC should make higher education accessible to poor; dy CM

The Higher Education Commission of India, proposed to be set up by the Centre in place of the University Grants Commission (UGC), should make higher education accessible to the poor, Telangana Deputy Chief Minister and Education Minister K Srihari said today.

The reforms being contemplated by the Centre should improve the standards of universities in the country to global level, he said.

However, the commission proposed by the Centre appears to hurt the autonomy of universities, a state government release quoted him as saying.

Srihari was speaking at a brain-storming session organised here on the proposed commission. The Centre has sought the views of states on the move, it said.

Srihari said the state government would submit its views to the Centre in consultation with Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao before July 20.