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of social service and universal welfare.
(iv) that HE institutions should have a full-fledged department of community service, acting as a nodal point for coordinating and orchestrating the expertise and extension activities of all other departments.
(v) that each departmental curriculum should have built-in mechanisms to relate its contents to community needs, problems and aspirations.
(vi) that each department should develop a culture of research to generate new knowledge so as to keep abreast with the everchanging needs and aspirations of the people. These research findings could be utilised by the voluntary sector and governmental organisations in their nation-building tasks. (vii) that institutions of higher learning must dovetail their policy objectives and action programmes with those of the Five-Year Plans of Government so as to enhance their relevance and effectiveness.
(viii) that HE institutions must safeguard their freedom and autonomy at all cost against the forces of invasion emanating from various quarters as without this they won't be able to design their strategy of social change with strings unattached.
(ix) that they must work to eradicate superstitious beliefs (e.g., fate, karma, super natural worlds/beings) and atavistic practices that act as impediments to social development.
(x) that they must work for the spread of an ecological perspective on life by a fusion of all that is best in ancient wisdom and modern knowledge.
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(xi) that practice of social change is not always a smooth sailing. It and does involve conflict situations whose resolution may demand partisan standpoint. In such situations siding with the weak is an unfailing talisman.
(xii) that social change may call for altering the status quo and restructuring the existing institutions. This may invite trenchant criticism of the university intellectuals from vested interests. They may be branded as radical activists and peace disturbers. They may also have to incur the wrath of the law keepers but all this they have to put up with exemplary courage and patience.
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