The state has gone unrepresented in the revamped zonal committee constituted by the University Grants Commission (UGC) on the National Education Policy, leaving the state education minister fuming.

The UGC had constituted five zonal committees by splitting the universities of the country into five zones to implement the National Education Policy.

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West Bengal has no representation in the revamped zonal committee for the North-East and East zone formed by the UGC. None of the Vice Chancellors (VCs) of the state’s universities found place on the seven-member panele. An irked Bratya Basu, state education minister, trained his guns at the UGC, calling it biased.

The UGC committee for the North-East and East Zone had seven members but in a surprise move Bengal got the axe as no Vice Chancellor from any of the 40 universities in the state were inducted in the committee, he said. “This is highly biased as far as the UGC’s move is concerned and raises questions over its impartiality,” Mr Basu said in a tweet today.