Joint panel of V-Cs resolves to make it an integral part of curriculum
The Joint Committee of Vice-Chancellors of all universities in Gujarat today resolved to make the study of terrorist strikes: their prevention and management, a mandatory part of the curricula in every university in the state.
In a unanimous resolution passed at its meeting on Tuesday, the committee also resolved to consider students linked to Terror activities as terrorists and not students.
Committee chairman and Saurashtra University Vice-Chancellor, Dr Kamlesh Joshipura, told Newsline that students in all courses, including Medical, Engineering, Science, Commerce and Arts, will have to study the anti-terror and disaster response course, which would also be designed to “inculcate nationalism and patriotism”.
The Vice-Chancellors Committee has reasoned that such a course is the need of the hour as Gujarat is a border state hit by terrorist acts in recent times. Going a step further, the joint committee has urged that terrorism being a national threat, universities in other states should also follow the Gujarat model.
This will be soon communicated to the state Government and the Governor, and all universities in Gujarat will shortly have it as a compulsory subject, Joshipura added.
The Committee has also resolved to write to the Association of Indian Universities to pass a resolution condemning “acts of support to anti-national terrorism by students and their supporters”.
The resolution also came down heavily on the Vice-Chancellor of the Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi for stating that the university would support students arrested in the wake of the terror encounter in Jamia Nagar, and HRD minister Arjun Singh for endorsing the statement.
Asked if it was right on the part of the committee to consider the arrested students as terrorists even before they have been convicted by any court, Joshipura said, “The fact that they have been arrested means there is a 50-50 chance that they indeed are terrorists.”
Courtesy : www.indianexpress.com
The Joint Committee of Vice-Chancellors of all universities in Gujarat today resolved to make the study of terrorist strikes: their prevention and management, a mandatory part of the curricula in every university in the state.
In a unanimous resolution passed at its meeting on Tuesday, the committee also resolved to consider students linked to Terror activities as terrorists and not students.
Committee chairman and Saurashtra University Vice-Chancellor, Dr Kamlesh Joshipura, told Newsline that students in all courses, including Medical, Engineering, Science, Commerce and Arts, will have to study the anti-terror and disaster response course, which would also be designed to “inculcate nationalism and patriotism”.
The Vice-Chancellors Committee has reasoned that such a course is the need of the hour as Gujarat is a border state hit by terrorist acts in recent times. Going a step further, the joint committee has urged that terrorism being a national threat, universities in other states should also follow the Gujarat model.
This will be soon communicated to the state Government and the Governor, and all universities in Gujarat will shortly have it as a compulsory subject, Joshipura added.
The Committee has also resolved to write to the Association of Indian Universities to pass a resolution condemning “acts of support to anti-national terrorism by students and their supporters”.
The resolution also came down heavily on the Vice-Chancellor of the Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi for stating that the university would support students arrested in the wake of the terror encounter in Jamia Nagar, and HRD minister Arjun Singh for endorsing the statement.
Asked if it was right on the part of the committee to consider the arrested students as terrorists even before they have been convicted by any court, Joshipura said, “The fact that they have been arrested means there is a 50-50 chance that they indeed are terrorists.”
Courtesy : www.indianexpress.com
on October 2, 2008, 9:35 pm
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