The North Eastern Hill University Teachers Association (NEHUTA) and Meghalaya College Teachers Association (MCTA) on Thursday finally welcomed the implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 from the academic session of 2023-2024.
The decision was taken after the emergent meeting of the NEHU Academic Council (AC) chaired by the Vice Chancellor, Prof Prabha Shankar Shukla.
After the meeting, NEHUTA president Prof Lakhon Kma said that the meeting was a success as the VC had agreed on his flaws to issue notification on July 12 to all Principals of colleges to implement NEP from August 1 without the approval of the academic council.
Prof Kma said that in the meeting the VC had agreed that the academic council is more supreme than the executive council of the VC when it comes to decisions related to academic policy matters of the university.
“We are happy with the outcome to the meeting and we have agreed to go ahead with the implementation of the NEP from the academic session 2023-2024 and this decision override the notification of the VC after 110th meeting of the AC who had single handedly tried to force the implementation of the NEP without the approval of the AC” said Prof Kma.
When asked on the sudden decision to agree to the implementation of NEP from 2023-2024, Prof. Kma said that this decision was taken after good sense had prevail to the VC who had regretted with his previous decision to override AC and also by taking into account the interest of the students and the colleges.
Prof Kma claimed that good sense might have prevailed unto the VC after the university might have received direction from the President of India and the Governor of Meghalaya as the NEHUTA and MCTA had continuously written to this highest authority on the attitude of the VC.
Prof. Kma said that in the emergent meeting, a decision was also taken to convene an official meeting of the Academic Council of the university on October 31 and in this meeting a deliberation on how to go ahead with the NEP will be discussed.
“Normally the examination of the first semesters would be held in the month of November but since for the last three month many teachers have boycotted the classes hence there is a need to extend the session to allow the AC to discuss and set the question paper according to the NEP” he added.
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