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Another letter from UGC, this time on cleanliness- 20-Jul-2015
Chennai: Yet another letter arrived from the University Grants Commission (UGC), asking all the universities to ensure that their campuses are clean.
In the letter sent to all the vice-chancellors of universities, UGC chairman Prof Ved Prakash said Swachh Bharat-Swastha Bharat Abhiyan has to be institutionalised in the culture of day-to-day functioning of institutions and should become an integral part of the psyche of the university community—teachers, students and administrative staff.
“We need to ensure that every segment of our campus breathes cleanliness, be it buildings of academic departments, the landscape of the campus and residential buildings such as hostels for students and residences for the faculty. I suggest that these concerns may be passed on to the affiliated colleges of the university, for required implementation,” the letter read, adding that “It is extremely important to underscore that a significant initiative should be for the maintenance of excellent and operational toilet facilities independently for boys, girls, men and women, as this would be the best indicator of the cleanliness of institutional environment. It is also important to give thought to the fact that cleanliness will achieve its intended objective only if there is an adequate system in place for waste management.”
It may be noted that last week, the UGC shot off a couple of letters to the universities, one of them instructing the Journalism and Mass Communication departments in institutions affiliated to universities in India to promote a media policy that avoids generating content which may advance the agenda of terrorism. It recommended that the “media policy should include principles of self-restraint” as there is a raging debate over the freedom of media showing content that may incite terror acts.
In another letter, the UGC also asked institutes across the country to include in their curriculum issues relating to weapons of mass destruction, disarmament and peaceful use of chemistry as students are largely ignorant about the important international conventions. In yet another letter, the UGC prescribed a dress code for the students and faculty in universities.
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