Life Watch Bureau:
While voices like those above are raising hue and cry over the AMU VC’s decision to commence centers outside Aligarh and giving their own arguments, the VC himself invited distinguished intellectuals, vice chancellors, educationists and parliamentarians from across the country and abroad at a gala day-long meeting by the name National Consultation on Vision and Mission for the Special Centres of AMU held at New Delhi recently.
Talking exclusively to Life Watch, Vice Chancellor Prof. PK Abdul Azis said: “If our community has not been able to make progress so far, it is because of such people. Neither they do something themselves nor they allow others to do constructive work. You have seen to what extent all the people were favouring the idea of Centers. But these people will continue to oppose.”
Added Prof. NAK Durrani, Chairman Department of Mass Communication and Media Advisor-AMU: “Look back in history. The people who are opposing now were also the people who opposed former Vice Chancellors. Not one Vice Chancellor since independence has been left to work in peace. Now that our present VC has taken the most innovative and constructive step for the community since the times of Sir Syed, they are again opposing tooth and nail.”
During the meeting in New Delhi, Prof. PK Abdul Aziz unfolded the elaborated action plan and said that Murshidabad and Malappuram Special Centres of AMU will become functional with MBA and BA-LLB academic progremmes from the next academic session. Said Prof. Azis: “The setting up of five centres across the nation will transform the fate of excluded minority from development deficit to a life of dignified existence.”
Elaborating in detail, Prof. Azis said that West Bengal, Kerala, Bihar and the Central Government’s willing support in promoting education among Muslim community and to bring them into the national mainstream by expanding the benefit of education to Muslims also provided focus on the issue and helped us formulate the policy to widen the AMU’s campus network by establishing five Special Centres. The proposal is a powerful projection of an ambitious plan in the direction of academic and research programmes to be initiated by AMU to meet the challenging needs of the marginalized and excluded social classes, he added.
He clarified that the idea behind setting up special Centres is to provide easy access to modern education to the most educationally deprived social class so that the national goal of equity, access and inclusion of the excluded is accomplished. It is indeed a national duty bestowed upon AMU to promote education among the Muslims.
Prof. Azis pointed out that keeping in view the suggestion of Sachar and Fatmi Committees, the school education also received its due attention in the overall scheme of the Special Centres. High priority would be given to women’s education and a sub-committee of experts and activists to promote women’s education would be constituted, he added.
The most notable feature of the National Consultation Meet was the presence of distinguished intellectuals, educationists and parliamentarians from across the country and abroad. Some of AMUs alumnis flew across the seas from the US and came to attend the Meet.
Syed Ali Rizvi, President, Federation of Aligarh Alumni Associations in the US told Life Watch: “I can vouch for the fact that this Vice Chancellor is really concerned about the well-being of the community. He was our guest on the Independence Day this year. He had one option of being the Chief Guest at an Independence Day function and the other of going to see a charitable institution run by our Federation. Our VC chose the later, though few men of the world would do so.”
Saner voices like those of Wahid Chowhan, Managing Director, Likproof India Pvt. Ltd. talked of the need to exercise caution. He said that we must ensure that good infrastructure is built at all the Centers and the money that is available is properly utilized.
(Due to paucity of space and time, we are unable to carry the views expressed by the participants in the National Consultation Meet in detail. Read the views of these participants and the views that we receive on the article published above in the forthcoming issue of Life Watch. Those who do not wish their identity to be revealed too may send their views.)
Talking exclusively to Life Watch, Vice Chancellor Prof. PK Abdul Azis said: “If our community has not been able to make progress so far, it is because of such people. Neither they do something themselves nor they allow others to do constructive work. You have seen to what extent all the people were favouring the idea of Centers. But these people will continue to oppose.”
Added Prof. NAK Durrani, Chairman Department of Mass Communication and Media Advisor-AMU: “Look back in history. The people who are opposing now were also the people who opposed former Vice Chancellors. Not one Vice Chancellor since independence has been left to work in peace. Now that our present VC has taken the most innovative and constructive step for the community since the times of Sir Syed, they are again opposing tooth and nail.”
During the meeting in New Delhi, Prof. PK Abdul Aziz unfolded the elaborated action plan and said that Murshidabad and Malappuram Special Centres of AMU will become functional with MBA and BA-LLB academic progremmes from the next academic session. Said Prof. Azis: “The setting up of five centres across the nation will transform the fate of excluded minority from development deficit to a life of dignified existence.”
Elaborating in detail, Prof. Azis said that West Bengal, Kerala, Bihar and the Central Government’s willing support in promoting education among Muslim community and to bring them into the national mainstream by expanding the benefit of education to Muslims also provided focus on the issue and helped us formulate the policy to widen the AMU’s campus network by establishing five Special Centres. The proposal is a powerful projection of an ambitious plan in the direction of academic and research programmes to be initiated by AMU to meet the challenging needs of the marginalized and excluded social classes, he added.
He clarified that the idea behind setting up special Centres is to provide easy access to modern education to the most educationally deprived social class so that the national goal of equity, access and inclusion of the excluded is accomplished. It is indeed a national duty bestowed upon AMU to promote education among the Muslims.
Prof. Azis pointed out that keeping in view the suggestion of Sachar and Fatmi Committees, the school education also received its due attention in the overall scheme of the Special Centres. High priority would be given to women’s education and a sub-committee of experts and activists to promote women’s education would be constituted, he added.
The most notable feature of the National Consultation Meet was the presence of distinguished intellectuals, educationists and parliamentarians from across the country and abroad. Some of AMUs alumnis flew across the seas from the US and came to attend the Meet.
Syed Ali Rizvi, President, Federation of Aligarh Alumni Associations in the US told Life Watch: “I can vouch for the fact that this Vice Chancellor is really concerned about the well-being of the community. He was our guest on the Independence Day this year. He had one option of being the Chief Guest at an Independence Day function and the other of going to see a charitable institution run by our Federation. Our VC chose the later, though few men of the world would do so.”
Saner voices like those of Wahid Chowhan, Managing Director, Likproof India Pvt. Ltd. talked of the need to exercise caution. He said that we must ensure that good infrastructure is built at all the Centers and the money that is available is properly utilized.
(Due to paucity of space and time, we are unable to carry the views expressed by the participants in the National Consultation Meet in detail. Read the views of these participants and the views that we receive on the article published above in the forthcoming issue of Life Watch. Those who do not wish their identity to be revealed too may send their views.)
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