Until now December 25 was observed as 'good governance day' to commemorate late Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's birthday. However, this year it has been decided to observe the entire December as 'good governance month' in the Departments of Higher Education, Electronics/ IT-BT/ and Skill Development, Entrepreneurship and Livelihood, which he heads.
Karnataka to observe December as good governance month in Department of Higher Education
Karnataka Higher Education Minister C N Ashwath Narayan has said that live streaming of academic council, finance committee and Syndicate meetings of Universities in the state will be launched to mark the good governance month in December.
He said, "in the past years, December 25 was observed as 'good governance day' to commemorate late Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's birthday. However, this year it has been decided to observe the entire December as 'good governance month' in the Departments of Higher Education, Electronics/ IT-BT/ and Skill Development, Entrepreneurship and Livelihood, which he heads. Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai would inaugurate the initiatives on December 1."
"Aiming to bring in more transparency in the university administration system, live streaming of academic council, finance committee and syndicate meetings would be initiated. Once implemented this would continue as a regular phenomenon. The live streaming will be through social media platforms," Education Minister said.
All the universities in the state have also been directed to upload all the information on their websites by December 10.
"This is applicable to affiliate and constituent colleges also. In case of constituent colleges not having their website, they need to upload the information on the university website," he said.
"Websites should have all the information including student fee, funds sanctioned, ongoing projects, details of teaching and non-teaching staff," he added.
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