Govt needs to reconsider not funding private Institutions of Eminence: OP Jindal VC

The government needs to reconsider the idea of not granting funds to private institutions selected as Institutions of Eminence (IoE), said OP Jindal Global University Vice Chancellor C Raj Kumar on Monday.

OP Jindal and Sharda universities were the private institutions recommended by a UGC expert committee for IoE status. The HRD Ministry then wrote to Haryana and UP governments to pass a legislation to cease their private status and enable them to be considered as IoE-deemed universities.

Ten public IoEs will get Rs 1,000 crore each from the HRD Ministry to achieve world-class status but there will be no financial assistance to private IoEs.

"We believe that the government needs to reconsider the idea of not granting funding to private institutions selected as IoE. Similarly, as part of expanding the scope of the two per cent CSR spending, contributions made to public funded universities, IITs, national laboratories and autonomous bodies engaged in conducting research in science, ...