The move comes in wake of the inordinate delay in the passage of the Educational Tribunals Bill, 2010, which seeks to establish educational tribunals at the national and state levels to expedite adjudication of disputes in the education sector.
This Bill will be delinked from the Unfair Practices in Technical Education Institutions, Medical Educational institutions and Universities Bill, 2010.
The Educational Tribunal Bill was passed by Lok Sabha in 2010 but has been struck in the Rajya Sabha since then due to lack of consensus among political parties.
HRD Ministry officials said Unfair Practices Bill "will be amended so that adjudication of penalties is delinked from the Educational Tribunal Bill, 2010, and restored to civil courts".
This Bill, introduced in Lok Sabha, specifies guidelines under which unfair practices such as charging capitation fees, demanding donations, questionable admission processes etc could be treated as civil or criminal offences.
The Association of Self-Financing Universities has, however, voiced objections to these Bills along with three other Bills which are pending in Parliament, terming them as unconstitutional.
It said the five new Bills proposed to regulate all universities and higher education institutions, which is "completely unconstitutional" in nature. (MORE)