Private Universities In assam Will Want Security Clearance And Need To Be Secular: cm Himanta Biswa Sarma



The assam cabinet on tuesday determined that any new non-public university being set up inside the nation will first have to get safety clearance and stay secular while carrying out operations.


"From now on, any new personal college that comes up inside the state will first have to secure clearances from the house and political departments in view of national protection. Secondly, those private universities must be secular, and they should not indulge in religious conversion both directly and circuitously," chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma stated after the cupboard meeting.


He said if any proceedings of violations of those conditions are witnessed, then the licenses of those universities could be cancelled. Sarma said the cabinet authorized the brand-new guidelines to provide extra teeth to the assam Non-Public Universities Act, 2007.


The cabinet authorized putting in two personal universities at Sipajhar and Tinsukia, MoUs for which have been signed on the currently concluded Advantage assam 2.0 infrastructure and investment summit.


"The excellent response we acquired at the infrastructure and investment summit became, in large part, liable for the bold choice taken by means of the Tata group to install a semiconductor facility at Jagiroad," said Sarma.


"In recognition of the organization's decision and its former chairman emeritus, ratan tata, the cabinet has accepted the naming of the vicinity covering the semiconductor facility and associated enterprise close to it as ratan tata Electronics Town, Jagiroad," he said.


The benefit assam 2.0 summit, which concluded last week, had resulted in infrastructure and investment proposals worth ₹5.18 lakh crores, such as bulletins by way of reliance Industries, the adani Group, and Vedanta committing investments of ₹50,000 crores each within the country.


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