Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin moved a resolution against the new draft regulations of the University Grants of Commission and said the draft is against the basic principles of the Constitution. Stalin also charged the new regulations would affect the youth and higher education system in the state.
Moving the resolution in the state assembly on Thursday, Stalin said the new norms will affect the opportunities of youth in the state. Urging the withdrawal of the draft, Stalin said the new norms would affect the higher education system, driven by social justice, in Tamil Nadu.
It will severely affect the future of youth from the state, he said. In the resolution, the state argued, “The draft regulations are not only against federalism, the basic principle of the Indian Constitution, but also Tamil Nadu’s higher education,” The Hindu reported.
The Union education ministry released draft UGC (Minimum qualifications for appointment & promotion of teachers and academic staff in universities and colleges and measures for the maintenance of standards in higher education) regulations, 2025, earlier this week. Stalin had opposed the draft regulations earlier as well and said the state would fight against it politically and legally.
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“The new UGC regulations granting Governors broader control over VC appointments and allowing non-academics to hold these posts are a direct assault on federalism and state rights. This authoritarian move by the Union BJP government seeks to centralise power and undermine democratically elected state governments,” Stalin had charged.
The Tamil Nadu CM said education must remain in the hands of those “chosen by the people, not dictated by governors acting at the BJP government’s behest”. Education is a subject under the Concurrent List in our Constitution, and hence we consider that the move of the UGC to issue this notification unilaterally as unconstitutional, the DMK leader said.
