{"id":251627,"date":"2025-03-04T17:44:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T17:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/assam-mandates-security-clearance-secular-stance-for-new-private-universities\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T17:44:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T17:44:21","slug":"assam-mandates-security-clearance-secular-stance-for-new-private-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/assam-mandates-security-clearance-secular-stance-for-new-private-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"Assam mandates security clearance, secular stance for new private universities"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Guwahati: The Assam government has decided that private universities willing to set up in Assam will have to obtain national security certificates from the Home and political department of the state. The university must profess secularism and cannot be engaged in religious conversion.<\/p>\n

Assam chief minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma<\/a> after the cabinet meeting on Tuesday said, \u201cPrivate universities willing to set up in Assam will have to obtain national security certificates from the Home and political department. Secondly those universities will have to be secular, they cannot associate with religious conversion either directly or indirectly”.<\/p>\n

He added that the government has made strict provisions, and this will be inserted in the Assam Private University Act, 2007. \u201cIf any university violates the new provisions their registration will be cancelled.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Chancellor of the University of Science and Technology Meghalaya<\/a> (USTM), Mahbubul Hoque was arrested by the Special Task Force (STF) of the Assam police from his residence in Guwahati recently. <\/p>\n

The arrest was in connection with a case registered in Assam\u2019s Sribhumi, following allegations of exam malpractice in a school run by ERD Foundation, whose chairman is Hoque. <\/p>\n


Last year Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma accused Hoque of Flood Jihad. Sarma has alleged that due to rampant destruction of hills along the Assam and Meghalaya border by the university Guwahati faced severe artificial flooding. Sarma said that new provisions are made for institutions like USTM. He said that during the Advantage Assam summit recently two MOU were done to set up two campuses of private universities. \u201cOne such will come up in Sipajhar and another in Tinsukia. They will invest close to Rs 800 Crore. The cabinet meeting has approved the setting up of the two universities and will bring legislation in the state assembly.\u201d The chief minister stated, \u201cIIT graduates have launched the Pan IIT Alumni Association, which, with support from State and Central Governments, will set up 10 skill development centers across the state, with a Rs 90 crore investment. Graduates will be offered placement opportunities. Additionally, the Assam Cabinet has approved the recruitment process for Vice Chancellors of new universities\u201d. <\/p>\n

He added, \u201cThe Assam Cabinet has decided to ease regulations for fresh engineering graduates and diploma holders (up to five years from graduation), enabling them to participate in PWD and Water Resources tenders. This initiative will empower young engineers to form partnerships, overcome challenges like limited experience and equipment, and contribute to the growth of local contractors.\u201d
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Guwahati: The Assam government has decided that private universities willing to set up in Assam will have to obtain national security certificates from the Home and political department of the state. The university must profess secularism and cannot be engaged in religious conversion. Assam chief minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma after the cabinet meeting on Tuesday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-118715862,imgsize-14050.cms","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[12169,194843,194846,57762,194850,194849,12392,15712,1665,8744,194845,2441,194844,194848,21946,8910,192278,194847],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251629,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251627\/revisions\/251629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}