In a first, the Gujarat Government has issued a list of possible topics related to various government schemes, for PhD students in the state to do research on.
In a first, the Gujarat Government has issued a list of possible topics related to various government schemes, for PhD students in the state to do research on.
The list issued to the universities includes some of the famous government schemes like Mahatma Gandhi Swachhata Mission, Kanya Kelavni, Gunotsav, Garib Kalyan Mela, Vajpayee Bankbable Yojna, Mukhyamantri Amrutam (MA) Yojna, etc.
According to PTI, the move has received opposition due to the following reasons:
Some academicians feel that the government should not force subjects upon students and guides, and if somebody decides to do research on a government scheme, it should be conducted independently.
Congress reacted very sharply, insisting that this kind of research would never be independent.
"It is least likely that PhD conducted on government schemes will be independent as government will influence their outcome because they will never want the scam behind its schemes to come out in the public. Universities here are already far behind other states in terms of research output. By dictating PhD topics, it will only worsen the quality of research," said Manish Doshi, state Congress spokesperson.
Reasons given in favour of providing the list:
A U Patel, an adviser to the Knowledge Consortium of Gujarat (KCG), an independent society headed by the commissioner of state higher education department, which has come out with the list of topics said that the reason behind the move was to ensure critical evaluation of the government schemes
"Government has asked the universities to suggest the students and their guides that they may choose from the topics offered by it, so that the outcome of the research could be used to improve the schemes," he said
"To conduct an independent evaluation of government schemes, KCG framed a range of topics on which students in our universities could conduct PhD. The study, survey, analysis, and overall outcome will help improve the schemes. The university will ask PhD guides to suggest 3-4 topics to their students to pick up for PhD," Patel said
For instance, for Kanya Kelavni, a scheme for girls education, it suggests students may review and prepare a road map for future of the scheme
It wants government to explore analytical models for strengthening quality of primary education through Gunotsav, another scheme to evaluate the quality of primary education.
Source: Indiatoday
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