Varsities, faculties divided over proposed benefits of graded autonomy

A day after the government announced graded autonomy to 60 institutes, universities and faculties were divided over the proposed benefits.
 
The ministry for human resource development (MHRD) has given autonomy to some central, state, deemed and private universities, after putting these in two categories. Category-I institutes and colleges have a slight advantage over those in Category-II. For instance, those in the first don’t need the regulator, University Grants Commission’s (UGC’s) permission for signing an understanding with an academic institute abroad.
 
The categorisation was done on the basis of universities’ National Accreditation and Assessment Council (NAAC) score. Every five