Live streaming of Academic Council, Syndicate meetings soon: Minister

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: Minister for higher education Dr C.N. Ashwath Narayan said on Tuesday that live streaming of meetings of the academic Council, finance committee and Syndicate meetings of universities will be launched to mark Good governance month in December.

 Addressing a press conference, he said, various programmes have been planned in the three departments which he heads as minister. In the past years, December 25 was celebrated as ‘Good governance day ‘ to commemorate late Prime Minister AB Vajpayee’s birthday.

However, this year, it had been decided to observe the whole of December as ‘Good governance month’ in the departments of Higher Education, Electronics/ IT-BT/ and Skill Development, Entrepreneurship and Livelihood. He added that Chief Minister Basavaraja Bommai would inaugurate the programmes on December 1.  

“The live streaming will be done through social media platforms,” he explained. Universities have also been instructed to upload all information on their websites by December 10. This is applicable to affiliate and constituent colleges also. In case of constituent colleges not having their website, they need to upload the information on the university website, Narayan clarified. Websites should have all the information including student fee, funds sanctioned, ongoing projects, details of teaching and non- teaching staff, he stated.

To achieve effective implementation of NEP, universities need to prepare institution development plan and this is mandatory as per NITI Ayog. In this regard, The State Higher Education Council will organise a workshop in the first week of December, Narayan said. The department of Electronics/ IT-BT/ S & T will hold capacity building programmes to promote women entrepreneurship, rural entrepreneurship and startups.

The programmes at Bengaluru, Hubballi, Belagavi and Mangaluru will be in association with institutions such as Karnataka Digital Economy Mission (KDEM), HDFC etc. Installation of newly developed software to facilitate activities of women self help groups is also planned, Narayan mentioned. Rashmi Mahesh, Principal Secretary, Higher Education, Selvakumar, Principal Secretary, Skill Development, P. Pradeep, Commissioner, DCTE, Basavaraju, Director, Science and Technology, were present.