Question: Who chaired the meeting of the 53rd Council of IITs held at IIT Delhi on 27th September, 2019?
(a) Narendra Modi
(b) Ramesh Pokhariyal
(c) Rajnath Singh
(d) Bandaru Dattatreya
Answer: (b)
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(a) Narendra Modi
(b) Ramesh Pokhariyal
(c) Rajnath Singh
(d) Bandaru Dattatreya
Answer: (b)
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- Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ chaired the 53rd Meeting of the Council of Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) at IIT Delhi on 27th September, 2019.
- Minister of State for HRD Sanjay Shamrao Dhotre was also present on the occasion.
Highlights of the major decisions taken in the meeting:
- Every IIT will work on improving their research excellence and through that their national and international rankings. For this, each IIT will come up with their action plan.
- For promoting IITs as global education destinations, foreign students – including the OCI card holders with foreign passport & have studied abroad – would be provided direct entry to appear in the JEE Advanced examinations. Further, IITs would prepare a scheme for providing scholarships for the bright foreign students to study in IITs.
- They would also explore the possibility of offering online programmes to students both in India and abroad. The process of recruiting foreign faculty would be continued by liberalizing the current regulatory processes.
- A major drive will be launched for improving the hostel facilities and rebuilding the dilapidated hostels. Separate funding for this would be earmarked under HEFA. Further, where possible, the PPP model would be implemented which would be started by IIT Delhi.
- In order to promote excellence in the IITs, all new appointments would be through tenure track system, under which IITs will have more flexibility in recruitment without insisting for necessary three years post-PhD experience.
- Academically weak students, who are not able to secure the required credits for promotion to the next semester may be allowed an exit option with a degree programme after second semester, rather than being forced out of the programme.
- Continuation of the weaker section scholarships for slow paced students for one additional year beyond the regular term of four years.
- Each IIT will identify their thrust areas for specialization and communicate the same to MHRD within a month. In these areas, they have to set up nation-best research facilities.
- The HRD Minister launched a common IIT/IISc admission portal developed by IIT Bombay for international applicants interested in pursuing postgraduate studies.
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