New Delhi, May 26 -- Top higher education institutions on Monday urged the parliamentary panel examining the proposed Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan (VBSA) Bill, to strengthen safeguards for institutional autonomy, widen state representation and adopt a phased rollout, warning that some provisions could effectively "subordinate the regulator to the executive" and trigger Centre-state friction, people aware of the matter said. At the latest meeting of the 31-member joint parliamentary committee on the VBSA Bill, 2025, institutions including Banaras Hindu University (BHU); Forest Research Institute (FRI), Dehradun; and Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, broadly backed the bill's proposal to replace the Univers...