Varsity staff against entry of foreign players

BHUBANESWAR: The All-Orissa University Employees’ Federation adopted a resolution on Tuesday opposing the upcoming Foreign Educational Institutions (Regulation of Entry and Operations) Bill, 2010. The Bill seeks to regulate the entry and operation of foreign educational institutions seeking to impart higher education in India.On the concluding day of its two-day biennial general council meeting, former MP and president of the All-India University Employees’ Confederation Bhabani Shankar Hota said the State Government was giving emphasis to privatisation of educational institutes and this must be opposed. “The government allowed engineering colleges to mushroom everywhere and the result is the large number of vacant seats,” Hota said.The Federation also decided to press for democratisation of university administration.Among other things, the association demanded Orissa university grants commission on the lines of the University Grants Commission to look after State universities, regularisation of services of  university employees working on contractual basis and non-withdrawal of welfare measures that had already been implemented in varsities. As many as 24 non-teaching employees’ associations of 19 universities of the State participated in the meeting.