The UGC committee on Welfare and Allied matters (1965) was headed by :
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The UGC committee on Welfare and Allied matters (1965) was headed by :
Answer: C. T. Sen — Concept — The University Grants Commission, set up under the UGC Act of 1956, does much of its policy work through expert committees: for each defined area of…
- A.
C.D. Deshmukh
- B.
N.A. Nikam
- C.
T. Sen
- D.
D.C. Pavate
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Correct answer: C
Concept — The University Grants Commission, set up under the UGC Act of 1956, does much of its policy work through expert committees: for each defined area of university education it constitutes a small committee, names that committee after its terms of reference, and puts a serving academic administrator — most often a sitting Vice-Chancellor — in the chair.
So a question of this kind is a matching problem: committee name + year of constitution ↔ chairperson. The reliable method is to anchor each committee to the office its chairperson actually held in that year, rather than to the person's later fame.
Applying it to this committee — The committee on Welfare and Allied Matters was constituted by the UGC in 1965 to examine student welfare in universities and colleges — hostels, health services, employment and information bureaux, and student amenities generally.
At its first meeting on 2 August 1965 the committee adopted the fuller title “Committee on Students’ Welfare and Allied Matters”, and it worked under the chairmanship of Dr T. Sen — Triguna Sen, then Rector and Vice-Chancellor of Jadavpur University, who later became Union Minister of Education.
The committee’s report was published in 1967. The year 1965 in the question is therefore the year the committee was constituted, not the year it reported — a distinction worth holding on to, because exam items quote sometimes the one and sometimes the other.
Cross-check: who was where in the 1960s
Name | Position in the 1960s | UGC committee associated with |
|---|---|---|
C.D. Deshmukh | UGC Chairperson 1956–1961; Vice-Chancellor, University of Delhi 1962–1967 | National Service Committee (1959); Physical Education Committee (reported 1968) |
N.A. Nikam | Vice-Chancellor, University of Mysore 1960–1962 | Review Committee on Philosophy (1962) |
T. Sen | Rector and Vice-Chancellor, Jadavpur University 1955–1966 | Committee on (Students’) Welfare and Allied Matters (1965) |
D.C. Pavate | Vice-Chancellor, Karnatak University; UGC member; later Governor of Punjab | Committee on Prevention of Corruption (1964) |
Reading the grid across, each of these educationists chaired a different UGC committee in a different year, so the 1965 welfare brief belongs to the Jadavpur Vice-Chancellor of that time, T. Sen.