Report of the Task Force on Autonomous Colleges and Departments

Abstract

The Association of Indian Universities in its Annual Meeting at Shillong in 1985 took up the matter of reviewing the Working of Autonomous Colleges and Departments as a consequence of a part of agenda to consider basically the concept of • autonomous colleges vis-a-vis a review of the working of a few autonomous colleges/departments in existence then. The concept of autonomous colleges, it was felt, has great significance in providing opportunities by way of freedom to individual institutions to orient the curriculum to meet regional needs and thus provide chances to the institutions to develop initiative and leadership on the part of the faculty and to promote continuous assessment, internal evaluation and reforms in examinations system.