Deemed varsity fails to impress review committee, sees no progress

Chennai: The city based Hindustan University (a deemed university) has again failed to impress the deemed universities review committee by scoring 24 (53.33 per cent) out of 45 in the recent review of deemed universities in the country.

The ministry of human resource development (MHRD) had, in 2009, constituted a four-member committee with Prof P.N. Tandon as chairman to review the functioning of deemed universities in the country.

During its first assessment in 2009, the committee awarded 24 (53.33 per cent) out of 45 points and the committee which did a review of its first assessment a couple of months ago this year, awarded the same score again. Interestingly, the committee observed that there was no evidence of any significant improvement since the time of the last review in any of the parameters used for evaluation.

“The institute seems to have lost the National Assessment and Accre­ditation Council (NAAC) accreditation which was awarded to it in 2009,” the committee said. The university was later awarded “B” grade by NAAC from July this year.

The committee awarded “F” grade (zero marks) for the first parameter which analyses the contributions of the university in its area of specialisation to the objectives of the university education system and whether the management is capable of contributing to the university’s ideals and traditions.

The university also scored “C” grade (one mark) on the parameter of governance—rules based on the model prescribed by the University Grants Commission (UGC).

It may be recalled that the university faced student unrest a couple of years ago when students from north and south India clashed and the university had to close down for over a week.