Many students and academicians have come out to suggest that the recent government order that mandates universities to take prior permission from the Ministry of External Affairs for organising international webinars and online conferences would limit academic works carried out by them.
Notably, the Union Ministry of Education issued an order on January 15 that approvals were required for such conferences that discussed India’s “internal matters” as well as those receiving foreign sponsorship. It said that international seminars and conferences could be discussing sensitive topics of India ranging from political and scientific matters to commercial and personal issues.
To this end, the students and professors of international relations said that they would be the most affected by the said order. They claimed that receiving permission from the government took a lot of time.
The Times of India quoted Moushumi Basu, an associate professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru…