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UGC panel wants to drop 'Hindu' and 'Muslim' from secular BHU and AMU

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Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh Muslim University. File photo

New Delhi: A UGC panel has recommended that names of religions in two major universities should be dropped.

The panel said the words Hindu and Muslin in Banaras Hindu University (BHU) and Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) did not reflect their secular character.

The panel, which was formed to probe the alleged irregularities in 10 central universities, submitted the recommendations as part of the audit report of AMU.

Centrally funded universities are secular institutions but words related to religion in their names do not reflect that character, a panel member said on the condition of anonymity.

The universities can be simply called Aligarh University and Banaras University or be renamed after their founders, the panel member said.

No name change: Javadekar

Reacting to the recommendation, union HRD minister Prakash Javadekar said the government has no intention to change the names of the two varsities.

"AMU and BHU are very old institutions, and we do not intend to change their names. We formed a committee to look into the administrative, academic and research audits of universities.

"The committee studied various aspects and I have not seen what they have said, but there is neither such decision nor is there any such intention to change the names (of these universities)," the HRD minister told reporters here.

Besides AMU and BHU, other universities that were audited by the panel include: Pondicherry University, Allahabad University, Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University in Uttarakhand, Central University of Jharkhand, Central University of Rajasthan, Central University of Jammu, Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya in Wardha, University of Tripura and Hari Singh Gour University in Madhya Pradesh.

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