Meeting of the Academic Council held

ALIGARH July 12: As directed by the Executive Council in its meeting held on July 8, the special meeting of the Academic Council held today has reconsidered its draft amendments/ additions in the Statutes today and altered the use of words “Regional Campuses” in the light of Visitor’s approval and replaced it by the term “Centres”.

The Executive Council in its last meeting considered the draft amendments/ additions in the Statutes 6A, 8A, 18, 27, 29(2)(b), 35 and 36 of the Statutes of the University under Section 28 of the Act XL of 1920 submitted by the Academic Council and observed that since the Visitor while approving the AMU proposal to establish two Centres under Sub-section (2) of Section 12 of the University Act has used the term “Centres” the University for all its practical purposes should use the same term.

In view of the observation of the EC, the matter was brought back to the Academic Council and the change of terminology was unanimously approved.

The Academic Council also considered the change of words “Salaried Offices” under Statute 6 A(2) to “Salaried Employee”. But the members felt that there is no need of any change as the University has statutory provision to appoint officers.

The second item on agenda “to consider the request of some members of the Academic Council for admission of children of the University employees in schools upto +2 level maintained by the University” has evoked a lot of discussion. Professor Emeritus Irfan Habib, Prof. Saud Ali Khan, Prof. Saud Alam Qasmi, Prof. Razaullah Khan, Prof. Jawaid Akhtar, Prof. Tariq Mansoor, Prof. Najam Khalique, Prof. Mohd. Idrees, Prof. Mohammad Shabbir and many other members spoke on the subject and the meeting arrived at the conclusion that the issue required deeper examination. It also required statistical data and one should look into the backdrop of various factors including pending case in the Supreme Court relating to minority status and admission policy. The house authorized the Vice Chancellor to constitute a committee of the Academic Council to examine the matter and submit a detail report to the Academic Council for consideration and action.

The Academic Council has approved the opening of three Sections of PCB, PCM and Commerce (one each) with an intake of 60 students in both the senior secondary schools separately from the session 2010-11 under self-financing scheme.

The admission will be made on the basis of Admission Test for admission to Class XI for the session 2010-11. A nomination of 20% will be made by the Vice Chancellor at his sole discretion. The fee prescribed under this scheme will be Rs. 12,000/- per annum plus usual admission charges.