• Mandatory increase in seats: The Government can, “by order, direct any Central Educational Institution to increase the number of seats in each branch or faculty,” to protect the number of seats available for general students. In other words, no IIT or IIM can refuse to increase seats.

• Say in selection: Unaided institutions deemed to be universities shall make admissions in “a fair and transparent manner,” on the basis of qualifying examinations prescribed by UGC.

• Monitoring: The Centre has power to check for compliance with the provisions by the institutions.

• Punitive action: In case of violation, the Centre can withhold grants, withdraw deemed university status, take “any other appropriate action under relevant acts.”

Bill drags these too into the quota raj: IIFT, NSD, BIT...

Among the “deemed universities” that are proposed to be brought under the new Bill:

• Indian School of Mines (Dhanbad)

• Manipal Academy of Higher Education (Manipal)

• National Institute of Mental Health and Sciences (Bangalore)

• Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Mumbai)

• Symbiosis International Education centre (Pune)

• Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (Delhi)

• Tata Institute for Fundamental Research (Mumbai)

• Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (Mumbai)

• BITS (Pilani)

• National School of Drama (Delhi)

• BIT-Mesra (Ranchi)

• Central Institute for English and Foreign Languages (Hyderabad)

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