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A meeting of the State Higher Education Ministers is being convened in Bangalore in the first half of next month to consider the issue of enactment of a central legislation to control self-financing institutes. This was disclosed by the Human Resource Development Minister, Shri. Arjun Singh to a delegation of Students’ Federation of India (SFI), All India Students’ Block(AISB) and All India Progressive Students’ Union which met him here today. Shri. Singh said that education being a subject in the Concurrent List of the Constitution, the meeting is necessary to arrive at a consensus on the issue. He appealed to the students to call off their hunger strike. The delegation was satisfied with the HRM’s assurance.
In their representation, the three Student Organisations have demanded the enactment of a Central Legislation empowering the State Governments to control the unaided self-financing institutes. They have demanded a complete control on the deemed universities and de-recognition of substandard institutes. The Unions have also called for halting the process of commercialization of education.
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