The University Grants Commission (UGC) has issued Mulya Pravah 2.0, a modified version of Mulya Pravah, which was notified in 2019.
Key points
- Mulya Pravah 2.0 seeks to inculcate human values and professional ethics in higher education institutions.
- The stated intention is to build value-based institutions by orienting individuals and institutions towards developing a deep respect for fundamental duties and constitutional values and bonding with the country.
- It underscores the need for utmost transparency in administration and highlights that decision-making in higher education institutions must be solely guided by institutional and public interest, and not be vitiated by biases.
- It seeks to abolish the discriminatory privileges of officials and urges the administration to punish the corrupt.
- It lays stress on the criticality of ‘encouraging persons at all levels to think and give their advice freely’.
- It expects higher education institutions to ‘ensure integrity, trusteeship, harmony, accountability, inclusiveness, commitment, respectfulness, belongingness, sustainability, constitutional values and global citizenship’.
- It requires higher education administration to conduct matters ensuring accountability, transparency, fairness, honesty, and the highest degree of ethics.
- It expects staff and student unions to ‘support the administration in development activities and raise issues in a dignified manner’, although this sounds like suggesting that they act and be the team B of the administration and desist from raising issues concerning their members.
