Mulya Pravah 2.0

• Context (PIB): Mulya Pravah 2.0 was released by the University Grants Commission recently.

Objective of Mulya Pravah 2.0

• It aims to build value-based institutions, including fundamental duties and constitutional values.

Need for guidelines

• Findings of a survey of human resource managers highlighted unethical practices in organisations.
• These included “favouritism; sexual harassment; gender discrimination; inconsistent view on discipline; lack of confidentiality; etc.

Features

• Mulya Pravah 2.0 underscores the need for utmost administration transparency.
• It highlights the need for unbiased, objective decision-making in higher education institutions.
• It seeks to abolish the discriminatory privileges of officials and encourage punishing the corrupt.
• It mandates that provisions of the acts, policies, and procedures of universities should be upheld.
• Guidelines expect staff and student unions to “support the administration in development activities and raise issues in a dignified manner”.

  

Challenges

• The emphasis on confidentiality conflicts with the right to information.
• It maintains silence on the issue of teachers’ associations.
• The guideline does not define what “dignified manner” entails the scope of misuse.