new delhiahmedabad a ugc panel has recommended removal of words such as hindu and muslim from the names of banaras hindu university and aligarh muslim university even as union hrd minister prakash javadekar said the suggestion is beyond the committees mandatehe said the government has no intention to change the names of amu and bhuthe panel which was formed to probe the alleged irregularities in 10 central universities has made the recommendation in the audit report of amu that these words be dropped as they dont reflect the institutions secular characteramu and bhu are very old institutions and we do not intend to change their names we formed a committee to look into the administrative academic and research audits of universitiesthe mandate of the committee is to look into the administrative academic and research audits of universities we will not take cognisance of what they have recommended outside of this javadekar told reporters in ahmedabadwhile maintaining that he has not seen the panels report he clarified that there is neither such decision nor is there any such intention to change the namesaccording to the ugc panel the universities can be simply called aligarh university and banaras university or be renamed after their founderscentrally funded universities are secular institutions but such words related to religion in their names do not reflect that character a panel member said on the condition of anonymitybesides amu and bhu other universities that were audited by the panel included allahabad university hemwati nandan bahuguna garhwal university in uttarakhand central university of jharkhand central university of rajasthan central university of jammu mahatma gandhi antarrashtriya hindi vishwavidyalaya in wardha university of tripura and hari singh gour university in madhya pradesh