India, Nov. 28 -- Congress lawmaker Digvijaya Singh, who heads the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports, on Friday urged Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan to refer the Higher Education Commission of India (HECI) Bill to his panel for examination and discussion before it is taken up in Parliament during the winter session commencing from December 1.

In a letter to Pradhan, Singh called the bill a significant legislation that majorly rewrites the existing education governance architecture. "...it is critical that it be examined and discussed by the Parliamentary standing committee before it is taken up by the Parliament as a whole. This is, after all, the very purpose of the standing co...