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MHRD and UGC Reply: Librarians are not Eligible for UGC Major and Minor Research Projects

 

Today I have received the following letter from MHRD in response to the LIS Links memorandum to the UGC as well as MHRD regarding inclusion of Librarians in the Eligibility Criteria of UGC Major and Minor Research Projects. The letter is quite demotivating to the entire Library and Information Science professionals. I am keying the text without any modification on my part (for original copy click here)

Letter Start Point

 

PR

University Grants Commission

Bahadurshah Zafar Marg

New Delhi-110002

 

F.No.8-7/2013(MISC/HRP)                                                             26 Nov 2013

 

Sh. Abhinav Kumar

Private Secretary to Minister of State

Ministry of Human Resource Development

Shastri Bhawan, C-Wing, Dr. Rajendra

Prasad Road, New Delhi-110 001

 

Sub: - Inclusion of Librarians in the Eligibility Criteria of UGC Major and Minor Research Projects

 

Sir,

With reference to the D.O. No. 59260/ MOS/HRD(PS) dated 04/10/2013, on the subject cited above, I am directed to inform you that, as per XIIth Plan guidelines, only the teaching faculty of Library Science, Physical Education, Principal and Vice Chancellors will be eligible for Major /Minor Research Projects.

 

Yours faithfully

(R.S. Bharati)

Section Officer

 

Copy to:-

Dr. Badan Barman

House No. 8, Taranga Path

Krishna Nagar, Guwahati-781005

Assam

 

(R.S. Bharati)

Section Officer

Letter End Point

If you lose the track then following are some of the discussions on this issue.

Keeping the Track of This Burning Issue

Post 1: Librarians are Not Eligible to Apply for UGC Major and Minor Research Project: http://lislinks.com/forum/topics/librarians-are-not-eligible-to-app...

Post 2: Draft Letter to UGC to Include Librarian in Eligibility to Apply for Major/Minor Research Project. http://lislinks.com/forum/topics/letter-to-ugc-to-include-librarian...

Post 3: Sign the Petition: Inclusion of Librarians in the UGC Major and Minor Research Projects. http://lislinks.com/forum/topics/sign-the-petition-inclusion-of-lib...

Post 4: LIS Links Press Release: UGC Major and Minor Research Project. http://lislinks.com/forum/topics/lis-links-press-release-ugc-major-...

Post 5: MHRD and UGC Reply: Librarians are not Eligible for UGC Major and Minor Research Projects. http://lislinks.com/forum/topics/mhrd-and-ugc-reply-librarians-are-...

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Permalink Reply by Pawan Agrawal on December 18, 2013 at 21:56

Dear Badan,

Ok now it is clear.. on their part... Now we need to file an RTI covering following points.....

1. What is definition of teaching faculty? Is it differ to that of Academician?

2. Library professionals are declared as academic non vocational staff by UGC/MHRD in case academician/teaching faculties are same then library staff automatically becomes eligible for major or minor projects.

3. Name of the members deciding XII plan... is there any library profesional to represent them?

4. What is the reason that force UGC to withdraw the eligibility of Library professionals to take a major/minor project.?

5. If there no strong point then why they exclude us from the eligibility of major or minor projects.

you can add more after the suggestions from LIS Professionals these question should be asked from both MHRD/ UGC....

and yes what are the steps the get it amended to include LIS professionals.....

Permalink Reply by Pawan Agrawal on December 18, 2013 at 22:04

One more thing. This is actually not a proper reply of our letter... they just wrote what was written in the XII plan circular on UGC website.... We sent a letter them to request to include LIS professional under the eligibility to take a major or minor project... we did not request them to repeat these words.....

This reply is ridiculous.....

Permalink Reply by Dr. Badan Barman on December 18, 2013 at 22:08
Dear Pawan,
UGC never ever gave a proper reply to any question or RTI application. They used to quote from existing order or memo.
Let the comments come from other professionals regarding our future move.
Permalink Reply by Dr. N K Pachauri on December 20, 2013 at 4:58

dr. badan sir

we should raise the point  to mhrd minister and represent our case to ila.

Permalink Reply by Dr. Badan Barman on December 21, 2013 at 4:17

Sir,

MHRD will not do anything unless sufficient pressure are put from existing library associations.

I already forward a copy of the memorandum to the MHRD, but till now no results.

Permalink Reply by Pawan Agrawal on January 6, 2014 at 5:58

Dear Badan,

Please keep this discussion at top so that it could be accessed by maximum number of LIS professionals.... Such issues can not be taken as granted..... We must keep in mind that next pay commission is on the way and we may face other such decisions of UGC....

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