{"id":215282,"date":"2022-11-21T19:37:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T14:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=215282"},"modified":"2022-11-21T19:37:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T14:07:08","slug":"threat-to-federalism-in-agricultural-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/threat-to-federalism-in-agricultural-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Threat to federalism in agricultural education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>&#8211; The post is based on the article <strong>\u201cThreat to federalism in agricultural education\u201d <\/strong>published in <strong>The Hindu <\/strong>on <strong>20th November 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: <\/strong>GS2- Issues and challenges pertaining to federal structure<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance: <\/strong>Centre-state legislative relations<\/p>\n<p><strong>News- <\/strong>The article explains the issues related to KUFOS judgement by Kerala High Court<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is KUFOS judgement? <\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>It annulled the appointment of the Vice-Chancellor of the Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies (KUFOS). The court said that the appointment violated the UGC Regulations of 2018.<\/p>\n<p>It listed two specific violations: (a) the search committee recommended a single name and not a panel; and (b) in the search committee, the State government included the Director-General of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) instead of a UGC nominee.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What are the issues related to judgement?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>It weakens the <strong>principle of federalism<\/strong>. It dismantles the role of State governments in the governance of agricultural universities.<\/p>\n<p>It raises an existential threat for the <strong>facilitator and coordinator<\/strong> of agricultural education \u2013 the ICAR. It has sought to substitute the role of the ICAR with the UGC\u2019s Regulations.<\/p>\n<p>It also jeopardises the ICAR\u2019s efforts to ensure a minimum level of uniformity in agricultural education. The Model Act for agriculture universities stipulates three members in the search committee for Vice-Chancellors: the Director-General of ICAR; one nominee of the government; and one nominee of the Chancellor.<\/p>\n<p>The KUFOS judgement makes the presence of the ICAR representative invalid. In short, all appointments of Vice-Chancellors of State agricultural, veterinary, fisheries universities made under the ICAR\u2019s Model Act are likely to be rendered untenable.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What are the constitutional provisions related to agriculture education?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>AgricultThreat to federalism in agricultural education<span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">posed the Model Act for Agricultural Universities in India to bring uniformity in administration.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source&#8211; The post is based on the article \u201cThreat to federalism in agricultural education\u201d published in The Hindu on 20th November 2022. Syllabus: GS2- Issues and challenges pertaining to federal structure Relevance: Centre-state legislative relations News- The article explains the issues related to KUFOS judgement by Kerala High Court What is KUFOS judgement? It annulled&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/threat-to-federalism-in-agricultural-education\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Threat to federalism in agricultural education<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10498],"class_list":["post-215282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704821276},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}