At the 29th convocation of Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, the defense minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the University Grants Commission (UGC) should focus more on quality of education than the revenue or fees institutions received.
She believes that one size can’t fit all, and said “If the UGC comes up with a set of rules and norms which is done in the broad interest of promoting education, it should also allow a certain degree of flexibility for the universities and institutions or else institutions like Avinashilingam can never fit into your rules and norms. This institution does not take any capitation fee and runs on the fee that is due. Without capitation fee, it is not possible to run a medical college. So they have not set it up”.
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