An Alternative to Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhisthan (VBSA) Bill: Shared Governance for Higher Education
Dinesh Abrol | 13 March 2026 | The Wire
The Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhisthan (VBSA) Bill is statutorily paving the way for centralisation and commercialisation. It will result in extreme privatisation of higher education. The state governments need to immediately intervene in this matter.
The All India Peoples’ Science Network (AIPSN) believes that the VBSA Bill will allow decision making on higher education institutions (HEIs) to become unidimensional as the Bill promotes hyper globalisation rather than national innovation for self-reliance and social justice. AIPSN notes that the implementation of the Bill will lead to one-sided and highly centralised ways of regulation, determination of standards, and accreditation processes….