UGC suggests to Drop Muslim and Hindu from Name of AMU, BHU

Drop Muslim and Hindu from Name of Banaras Hindu (BHU) Universities, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), UGC Panel

Worlds such as Hindu and Muslim in names of universities Banaras Hindu University and Aligarh Muslim University do not reflect their secular character and should be dropped a UGC panel has recommended.

The panel was created to investigate the suspected irregularities in ten central universities and the suggestions have been made in the audit report of AMU.

All the Centrally funded universities are the secular institution but such worlds related to religion in their names do not reflect that nature.

The UGC panel recommended that the universities can be simply called Aligarh University and Banaras University or be renamed after their founders.

The UGC panel’s directive was limited to infrastructure and its research academic and financial process in these universities.

Banaras Hindu (BHU) Universities, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), UGC Panel's Recommendation

* The UGC panel has described AMU as feudal in nature and called for the instrument to uplift poor Muslims on campus.

* The panel has also recommended that the selection procedure of the vice-chancellor of AMU should be tweaked to align it with the appointment process followed by other central universities.

* Presently, AMU has a greater say in appointment procedure.

* The report has also pointed out that the culture of “inbreeding” in the university, in which a bulk of faculty appointments is of its previous students.

* The panel suggested a 5-year gap for all ex-students before they can be selected as teachers in AMU.

Aligarh Muslim University was examined by a committee comprising Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati University V-C Kailash Sodani, IIT-Madras professor Shripad Karmalkar, Guwahati University professor Mazhar Asif and IIM-Bangalore Professor Sankarshan Basu.