New Delhi: The new guidelines under the draft University Grants Commission (UGC) regulations for 2025 provides chancellors or visitors the authority to constitute a three-member search-cum-selection committee to appoint vice-chancellors. Tamil Nadu chief minister M.K. Stalin criticised the move calling it “authoritarian,” “direct assault on federalism” and “unconstitutional”.

On Monday (January 6), Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan unveiled the draft University Grants Commission (Minimum Qualifications for Appointment and Promotion of Teachers and Academic Staff in Universities and Colleges and Measures for Maintenance of Standards in Higher Education) Regulations, 2025, introducing significant changes to the selection process for vice-chancellors and faculty appointments.

The search-cum-selection committee for vice-chancellor appointments will consist of three members: the chairperson, nominated by the visitor/chancellor, and two members representing........

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