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Plan panel promises help to ISCA

By Our Staff Reporter

BANGALORE Jan. 6. Venkatasubramaniam, member of the Planning Commission for Health, Education, and Policy Research, has said that if the Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) sets up a "task force of experts" on University Science Education, the commission would "support it with funds."

Speaking at a "University Meet," at the 90th session of the Indian Science Congress, here on Monday, Mr. Venkatasubramaniam said that the recommendations of the experts at the meet, should not languish for another year, only to be discussed at the next science congress.

Instead, "form a task force for immediate implementation... The commission will support you with funds," he said.

The meet was organised by Bangalore University, co-organiser of the Science Congress with the Indian Space Research Organisation. Vice chancellors, the ISRO chief, Kasturirangan, the AICTE Chairman, Natarajan, and the eminent scientist and former Union minister,Raja Ramanna, MP, spoke on problems plaguing science education in the country, and possible solutions.

Dr. Ramanna said that the present structure of the university was an anachronism, with the Senate and the Syndicate serving no productive purpose.

Several institutions were going the route of the deemed university, to avoid the trappings of the conventional university system, he said.

Dr. Natarajan said that the All-India Council for Technical Education had recently formed an advisory board for manpower planning.

S.N.Hegde, Vice-Chancellor, Mysore University, said that he would propose a Karnataka Higher Education Development Corporation, at an upcoming meeting of vice-chancellors, with the State Government.

The corporation would give long-term loans at low interest to fund-starved institutions doing good work, and poor students with merit, he said.

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