“While the Act handed within the Legislative Assembly in 2019 opened avenues for the creation of recent personal universities in Tamil Nadu, the DMK, which was then sitting within the Opposition, had strongly opposed it. Today, the 2025 modification was much more harmful than the Act itself,” a press assertion of the MUTA mentioned.
“The modification is being introduced with the clear intention of changing government-aided schools, which at present capabilities with grants from the Tamil Nadu Government, into personal universities, thereby turning public property into personal property,” it added.
While it could have an effect on the scholars in some ways, the most important blow can be to free schooling, which is at present being supplied in government-aided schools on par with the federal government schools. “The modification would firstly deny the chance for the scholars to check beneath the free schooling coverage,” it added.
“Secondly, the schooling establishments, based by nice philanthropists for the noble aim of serving the poor and marginalised, can be at risk of changing into personal industrial enterprises,” MUTA famous.
“On one facet, the free schooling system can be scrapped, and on the opposite facet, the charges collected from the scholars would enhance manifold, making increased schooling an unattainable dream for a lot of college students. Opportunities like reservation-based scholar admission, scholarships, and varied different advantages, like these out there in authorities schools, shall be misplaced. Social Justice shall be pushed right into a everlasting grave,” the assertion contended.
Other downfalls within the schooling system owing to the modification can be lack of transparency in administration, lack of admission based mostly on advantage/social justice reservation, authorized recognition of payment plundering actions of personal establishments, discontinuation of varied programs for industrial well-being, reversal of the State’s scholar common in increased schooling, amongst others.
“The modification would equally reverse the respectful therapy rendered to the lecturers and workers in authorities and government-aided schools,” the assertion famous.
“Not solely will the instructor and worker appointments be made on the discretion of the personal administration with none rules, the job safety of present lecturers in government-aided schools may even jeopardised,” it charged.
The modification would additionally make the Private College Regulation Act, 1976 enacted to regularise the service situations of lecturers and workers defunct.
“There shall be no reservation by any means in instructor and worker appointments. The direct wage system for aided lecturers and workers, achieved by means of the sacrifices of the working class, will not be out there,” the assertion listed out.
Teachers feared quite a few rights and advantages, together with medical depart, earned depart, commuted depart, dearness allowance, pension, household pension, medical insurance coverage, and lots of extra, can be snatched away from them.
The assertion noticed that a big portion of the infrastructure in government-aided schools created with monetary help with the help of the University Grants Commission and different State and Union Government schemes can be handed over to personal gamers.
“It is an unacceptable atrocity handy over nationwide wealth created with the tax cash of the Union, State Governments, and the general public, in addition to human capital, together with the analysis, discoveries, and copyrights of skilled lecturers and Ph.D. students, to personal entities,” the assertion added.
As MUTA strongly condemned the modification proposal, which was anti-social justice, it urged the Tamil Nadu Government to utterly abandon the Bill, which impacts college students, lecturers, workers, and the society at giant.
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