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.

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.

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad inaugurated it on 28th December 1953.
Act of Parliament in 1956 provided it with statutory status.
Headquarters: New Delhi.
It works to coordinate, determine, and maintain standards of teaching, examination and research in university education.

Mulya Pravah 1.0
- These guidelines were released in 2019 by UGC.
- It called for Observing modesty, maintaining good health, and refraining from intoxicants.
- It also seeks harmony among students from different socio-economic statuses, communities, castes, religions, or regions.

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”.

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.