HRD Ministry to set up 14 more world-class universities

Nov 19: To enhance the quality of ‘Higher Education’, the Ministry of Human Recourse Development (HRD) and Planning has decided to set up 14 new ‘World Class Universities, as ministry official informed to media.

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“The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has asked to expedite the formulation of guidelines for setting up such universities and provide the final picture of the report into PMO within three weeks”, said Planning Commission Member Bhalchand Mungekar.

The HRD ministry is trying to prepare a blueprint of the report and submit it into PM office within deadline. For this HRM has asked the proposal from all the states to set up such types of educational universities that have a business management school, a medical college, an engineering college, a law college in a single campus. The Ministry has also instructed strictly to the state not to compromise with the quality of the education and campus.

“The preference will be given to those, which have not any central university in the state at present”, said Ministry. "The rules are going to be very stringent. The states have to compete to get a world class university," said Mungekar, while giving an outline of the regulation.

“The states have to provide a big plot of a land for free in prime locations, besides there would be other demanding criteria that the states will have to meet while competing for having such universities.”, said a spokes person of HRD Ministry.

Earlier, Planning Commission of India along with HRD Ministry have put a proposal in an educational meeting that held on September 13 to improve the standard of higher education with the establishment of universities of international model.

Thus, HRD ministry has followed the proposal by preparing guidelines on setting up ‘World Class Universities’. “This planning is an extension of setting up additional 14 new IITs and IIMs across the country as such institutes will be a part of the central universities”, said Ministry.

Allocation for the 11th Plan

As per the Prime Minister’s remark after the meeting of September 13, there was a general agreement on setting up 16 Central Universities in states which don’t have a single one and 14 more in other states. In addition there will be 8 IITs, 7 IIMs and 5 Indian Institute Science, Education and Research.

For this intact comprehensive plan, the government has also made it clear for a total of four-fold increase as far as funding is concerned. That accounts Rs 2.5 lakh crores, which is four times compared to the 10 th plan. With this the overall investment in education will increase to 19.4% from the current 7.7%.