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Janandolana Mahamaitri, Mysuru, has expressed superior interest implicit the information of nationalist universities successful the State, saying their endurance is astatine involvement owed to aggregate factors, and demanded urgent steps to fortify teaching facilities.
The organisation urged the State authorities to prioritise the assignment of imperishable module members, pointing retired that vacancies are steadily increasing, alternatively of utilising funds for bodies specified arsenic the Higher Education Council, which it alleged are being utilized to supply positions to erstwhile Vice-Chancellors.
In a property merchandise here, Mahamaitri besides called for the constitution of a caller Higher Education Commission to safeguard the aboriginal of universities. The projected commission, it said, should relation nether the enactment of acquisition experts, with enactment from businesslike officers of the Finance and Higher Education Departments. It further demanded that each fiscal matters of universities beryllium disclosed transparently connected the commission’s website.
Seeking a elaborate enquiry into the affairs of the University of Mysore, the organisation said steps indispensable beryllium taken to support the sanctity of the instauration built by eminent personalities specified arsenic Kuvempu. It besides demanded the constitution of a committee headed by the Chief Secretary to probe the issues plaguing the assemblage and analyse the complaints, and taxable a study to the Chief Minister.
These demands were placed astatine a property league present connected Saturday (January 3, 2026), addressed by Mahamaitri convenor Ugra Narasimhe Gowda and others.
The organisation besides took objection to the predominant changes of Principal Secretaries successful the Higher Education Department and alleged that the Minister for Higher Education had not taken superior steps to code the problems faced by the nationalist universities.
It besides sought clarity connected the presumption of the Prof. Sukhdev Thorat Committee study aft the State authorities rejected the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and announced its intent to present a State acquisition policy. There has been nary treatment connected the report, submitted agelong ago, nor immoderate denotation of its implementation, the organisation said, and questioned whether it would beryllium made disposable for nationalist debate.
Taking beardown objection to the University of Mysore Vice-Chancellor’s reported determination to restrict protests connected the campus, Mahamaitri alleged successful the merchandise that “delays” successful appointing impermanent module successful colleges specified arsenic Maharaja’s and Yuvaraja’s Colleges, owing to the shortage of imperishable faculty, person adversely affected world activities.
The organisation besides raised concerns implicit delays successful releasing pensions to retired employees of the University of Mysore.
