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The members of the Madurai Kamaraj, Manonmaniam Sundaranar, Mother Teresa, Alagappa, Tamil Nadu Teachers’ Education and Anna University Teachers’ Association (MUTA) person expressed their objection to the Tamil Nadu Private Universities (Amendment) Bill passed successful the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly connected Friday (October 17, 2025).
“While the Act passed successful the Legislative Assembly successful 2019 opened avenues for the instauration of caller backstage universities successful Tamil Nadu, the DMK, which was past sitting successful the Opposition, had powerfully opposed it. Today, the 2025 amendment was adjacent much unsafe than the Act itself,” a property connection of the MUTA said.
“The amendment is being brought with the wide volition of converting government-aided colleges, which presently functions with grants from the Tamil Nadu Government, into backstage universities, thereby turning nationalist spot into backstage property,” it added.
While it would impact the students successful galore ways, the large stroke would beryllium to escaped education, which is presently being provided successful government-aided colleges connected par with the authorities colleges. “The amendment would firstly contradict the accidental for the students to survey nether the escaped acquisition policy,” it added.
“Secondly, the acquisition institutions, founded by large philanthropists for the noble extremity of serving the mediocre and marginalised, would beryllium successful information of becoming backstage commercialized enterprises,” MUTA noted.
“On 1 side, the escaped acquisition strategy would beryllium scrapped, and connected the different side, the fees collected from the students would summation manifold, making higher acquisition an unattainable imagination for galore students. Opportunities similar reservation-based pupil admission, scholarships, and assorted different benefits, similar those disposable successful authorities colleges, volition beryllium lost. Social Justice volition beryllium pushed into a imperishable grave,” the connection contended.
Other downfalls successful the acquisition strategy owing to the amendment would beryllium deficiency of transparency successful administration, nonaccomplishment of admittance based connected merit/social justness reservation, ineligible designation of interest plundering activities of backstage institutions, discontinuation of assorted courses for commercialized well-being, reversal of the State’s pupil mean successful higher education, among others.
“The amendment would arsenic reverse the respectful attraction rendered to the teachers and employees successful authorities and government-aided colleges,” the connection noted.
“Not lone volition the teacher and worker appointments beryllium made astatine the discretion of the backstage absorption without immoderate regulations, the occupation information of existing teachers successful government-aided colleges volition besides jeopardised,” it charged.
The amendment would besides marque the Private College Regulation Act, 1976 enacted to regularise the work conditions of teachers and employees defunct.
“There volition beryllium nary preservation whatsoever successful teacher and worker appointments. The nonstop wage strategy for aided teachers and employees, achieved done the sacrifices of the moving class, volition nary longer beryllium available,” the connection listed out.
Teachers feared galore rights and benefits, including aesculapian leave, earned leave, commuted leave, dearness allowance, pension, household pension, aesculapian insurance, and galore more, would beryllium snatched distant from them.
The connection observed that a ample information of the infrastructure successful government-aided colleges created with fiscal assistance with the enactment of the University Grants Commission and different State and Union Government schemes would beryllium handed implicit to backstage players.
“It is an unacceptable atrocity to manus implicit nationalist wealthiness created with the taxation wealth of the Union, State Governments, and the public, arsenic good arsenic quality capital, including the research, discoveries, and copyrights of experienced teachers and Ph.D. scholars, to backstage entities,” the connection added.
As MUTA powerfully condemned the amendment proposal, which was anti-social justice, it urged the Tamil Nadu Government to wholly wantonness the Bill, which affects students, teachers, employees, and the nine astatine large.
