Recently, Prakash Javadekar, the Union minister of human resource Development, announced at a media briefing that the University Grants Commission had decided to grant autonomy to 60 educational institutions, including a few private institutions, across the country. It would be pertinent to recollect here that in the 1960s the IIMs and IITs were created outside the Indian university system to allow them freedom and autonomy, which was not quite possible under the university system at that time. Rather than reform the university system, the then government created these independent institutions, giving them full autonomy by keeping them away from any
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