Amendments to The Osmania, Andhra and Sri Venkateswara Universities' Act: Recommendations of the Committee on Comprehensive Education Bill

Abstract

From Introduction: Among the three terms of reference given by the State Government to the Committee in its G. O. Ms. No. 272 Education dated 20-3-1974 (vide Appendix I), the simplest was the one which referred to the Universities. The idea was implicit in the reference that no major overhaul of the Acts of the three general Universities of the .State was intended but only such amendments as were considered urgent and necessary The Committee, therefore, realised that, unlike the first reference to the Committee on the Comprehensive Education Bill which involved almost a critical and synoptic review of the educational system of the State, particularly at the school level, the references to the Universities required more a mending of the fences through “urgent and necessary” amendments to the existing Acts than any substantial recasting of the Acts themselves. In determining; amendments which were both urgent and necessary, the Committee availed itself fully of the wealth of information and thinking contained in reports of the Radhakrishnan Commission on Universities (1948) the Report of the Model Act Committee headed by Dr. Kothari (1961-1964), the chapters on Higher Education of the Report of the National Education Commission (1964-1966), and the latest report of the Gajendragadkar Committee on University governance set up by the U. G. C.