The academic council of the Indian Statistical Institute said in a resolution adopted at a special meeting on January 20 that it “was not consulted as a stakeholder during the drafting of the ISI Bill, 2025”. The academic council, comprising senior professors, is the highest decision-making body on academic affairs at ISI. This diminishes the role of the academic council,” an academic council member said. “While the IITs have embraced pseudoscience under the garb of IKS, the ISI academic council, as an autonomous body under the society-based structure, has always retained the authority to introduce rational courses. Mondal attended the ISI council meeting on January 24.

Source: The Telegraph February 03, 2026 02:17 UTC