UGC completes 60 years
Soon after Independence, the University Education Commission was set up in 1948 under the Chairmanship of Dr. S Radhakrishnan "to report on Indian university education and suggest improvements and extensions that might be desirable to suit the present and future needs and aspirations of the country". It recommended that the University Grants Committee be reconstituted on the general model of the University Grants Commission of the United Kingdom with a full-time Chairman and other members to be appointed from amongst educationists of repute.
In 1952, the Union Government decided that all cases pertaining to the allocation of grants-in-aid from public funds to the Central Universities and other Universities and Institutions of higher learning might be referred to the University Grants Commission. Consequently, the University Grants Commission (UGC) was formally inaugurated by late Shri Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the then Minister of Education, Natural Resources and Scientific Research on 28 December 1953.
The UGC, however, was formally established only in November 1956 as a statutory body of the Government of India through an Act of Parliament for the coordination, determination and maintenance of standards of university education in India. In order to ensure effective region-wise coverage throughout the country, the UGC has decentralised its operations by setting up six regional centres at Pune, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Bhopal, Guwahati and Bangalore. The head office of the UGC is located at Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg in New Delhi, with two additional bureaus operating from 35, Feroze Shah Road and the South Campus of University of Delhi as well.
Other Videos By Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
2013-12-30 | News Updates at this hour |
2013-12-30 | News Updates at this hour |
2013-12-29 | 134th Birth anniversary of Raman Maharishi |
2013-12-29 | News Top 20 |
2013-12-29 | Top News 20 |
2013-12-28 | Remembering Actor Rajesh Khanna on his birth anniversary |
2013-12-28 | News Updates at this hour |
2013-12-28 | Veteran actor Farooq Sheikh passes away |
2013-12-28 | PM's address at Diamond Jubilee Celebrations of UGC (Part 2) |
2013-12-28 | PM's address at Diamond Jubilee Celebrations of UGC (Part 1) |
2013-12-27 | UGC completes 60 years |
2013-12-27 | News Top 20 |
2013-12-27 | News Updates at this hour |
2013-12-27 | Cold wave grips North India |
2013-12-26 | Bengaluru International film festival to feature 140 movies |
2013-12-26 | Birth anniversary of Mirza Ghalib being observed today |
2013-12-26 | News Top 20 |
2013-12-26 | News Top 20 |
2013-12-25 | News Top 20 |
2013-12-25 | NewsTop 20 |
2013-12-24 | Remembering Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya on his birth anniversary |