Complete autonomy will allow these higher educational institutions to start new courses, new departments, new programmes, skill courses, off campuses, research parks, appoint foreign faculty, take foreign students, offer variable incentive packages, & introduce online distance learning.
They can get into academic collaboration w⟋top 500 universities of world.
They can decide their admission procedure, fee structure & curriculum, among others.
They will not have to come to UGC again & again for seeking permission as they maintained quality & achieved benchmark of 3.26 & above NAAC (National Accreditation and Assessment Council) ranking.
Continuation & Revision of “Post Matric Scholarship for OBC Students”
CCEA approved continuation & revision of Centrally Sponsored Scheme of “Post Matric Scholarship for Other Backward Classes Students for studying in India” (PMS-OBC) for years 2017 - 18,2018 - 19 & 2019 - 20.
Details of Post Matric Scholarship for OBC Students for Studying in India
Revised scheme will cover more OBC students & will ensure effective implementation & monitoring of scheme & achieve de-duplication.
Aim is to provide financial assistance to OBC students studying at post-matriculation or post-secondary stage to enable them to complete their education.
PMS-OBC is flagship scheme of Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment
It is in operation since 1998 - 99.
It enables approx. 40 lakh OBC students to pursue higher study after class X per year.
SWAYAM: Online Professional Dvt. Programme for Higher Education Faculty
Major & unique initiative of online professional development of 1.5 million higher education faculty using MOOCs platform SWAYAM has been launched.
In 1st phase of initiative, 75 discipline-specific National Resource Centres (NRC) are identified.
Centres under Ministry՚s Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers & Teaching located in Central Universities, IITs, NITs, State Universities, UGC՚s Human Resource Development Centres, National Institutes for Technical Teachers Training, IIITs, Open Universities & other institutions are notified as NRCs.
Initiative will benefit faculty, as it would be highly flexible & can be done at one՚s own pace & time.
Training materials under initiative will be uploaded & made available thru SWAYAM platform to all teachers w⟋effect from 1st October every year.
SWAYAM
SWAYAM is programme initiated by Union Govt. to achieve 3 cardinal principles of education policy - access, equity & quality.
Objective of initiative is to take best teaching learning resources to all, including most disadvantaged.
Continuation of Schemes of Pre-Matric, Post Matric and Merit-Cum-Means Based Scholarship Schemes
CCEA approved continuation of following schemes: Pre-Matric Scholarship Scheme, Post Matric Scholarship Scheme, Merit-cum-Means based Scholarship Scheme.
Although 30% of scholarships are earmarked for girl students, more than 35% of total scholarships are disbursed to them.
These Schemes shall be implemented thru National Scholarship Portal (NSP) & scholarships are disbursed thru Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) mode.
Scholarship is awarded to students who have secured not less than 50% marks in previous final examination.
Students should be studying in Govt. Schools⟋Institutes or recognized private schools⟋institutes.
Objective of Pre-Matric Scholarship Scheme: to encourage parents from minority communities to send their school going children (from Class I to X) to school, lighten their financial burden on school education & sustain their efforts to support their children to complete school education.
Objective of Post-Matric Scholarship Scheme: to provide financial assistance to poor & meritorious minority students w⟋better opportunities for higher education, increase their rate of attainment in higher education & enhance their employability in organized sector.
Objective of Merit-Cum-Means Based Scholarship Scheme: To provide financial assistance to poor & meritorious minority to pursue professional & technical courses at under Graduate & post Graduate levels.
For all 3 Scholarship Schemes, State⟋Community-wise target⟋allocation shall be applicable as per Census 2011.
Around 70 lakh scholarships are likely to be disbursed to students belonging to 6 notified Minority Communities viz. Muslim, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain & Parsi who are from economically weaker sections of society.
Medical College, Salempur at Deoria, Uttar Pradesh
CCEA approved proposal for establishment of new medical college at Deoria. This college would be built at cost of ₹ 250 cr. under Phase-II of Centrally Sponsored Scheme.
Under scheme, criteria for one medical in every 3 Parliamentary Constituencies & one Govt. medical college in each State was adopted.
College was recommended by state govt. of UP & would be up-gradation of District Hospital, Deoria.
District Hospital, Deoria is suitable as it has sufficient number of beds & other facilities including availability of land as per MCI norms for establishment of medical college of all possible locations in identified Block.
National Digital Library of India Dedicated to the Nation under NMEICT
National Digital Library of India (NDLI) was launched on National Reading Day, on 19th June, 2018.
NDLI is project of MHRD under aegis of National Mission on Education thru Information & Communication Technology (NMEICT) . It is developed by IIT Kharagpur.
Objective: to make quality digital educational resources available to all citizens of country to empower, inspire & encourage learning.
National Digital Library of India
NDL is single window platform that collects & collates metadata from premier learning institutions in India & abroad, as well as other relevant sources.
It was launched in pilot form in May 2016.
NDLI can be accessed through ndl. iitkgp. ac. in
Users would be able to access digital library anytime & anywhere absolutely free of cost.
Library is has mobile app, which can be accessed by both iPhone & Android users. App is downloaded over 6.70 lakh times.
App is available in 3 languages - English, Hindi & Bengali.
Summary of Initiatives Taken by the Govt. To Strengthen Education Sector in Last 4 Years
33 new initiatives are taken by Govt. in last 4 years to strengthen education system.
Objective is to integrate all existing digitized & digital contents across educational & cultural institutions⟋bodies to provide single-window access to diff. groups of users ranging across entire population.
National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT)
Other Initiatives
Right of Children to Free & Compulsory Education (Amendment) Bill, 2017 is tabled in Parliament, & as per proposed Amendment, states will hold examination of students in class 5 & 8.
14 lakh unqualified D. El. Ed teachers are doing course on “Swayam” platform & 1styear exam was successfully conducted.
NIRF - National Institutional Ranking Framework has completed.
SWAYAM portal is launched w⟋1,032 Courses by best faculty.
SMART INDIA HACKATHON initiative involves open invitation to college students to provide solutions to common problems.
Research & Innovation initiatives are launched w⟋IMPRINT - I & II.
Budget for quality education is increased 3 fold under RUSA - Rashtriya Uchhatar Shiksha Abhiyan.
GIAN - Global Initiative for Academic Network is aimed at internationalization of education.
Higher Education Financing Agency- HEFA is implemented under initiative of “Revitalising Infrastructure & Systems in Education” (RISE) by 2022.
On autonomy of Higher Education Institutions, IIM Bill is passed, while Graded Autonomy is granted to more than 60 universities.
Education budget will increase by 20% in each year under Samagra Shiksha.
UGC (Open & Distance Learning) Regulations, 2017 are notified in June, 2017 keeping in view urgent need of appropriate regulations for monitoring of higher education thru open & distance mode.
Revitalizing Infrastructure and Systems in Higher Education (RISE) by 2022
CCEA approved expanding scope of Higher Education Financing Agency (HEFA) by tasking it to mobilize ₹ 1,00, 000 cr. for Revitalizing Infrastructure & Systems in Education (RISE) by 2022.
Proposal called for enhancing capital base of HEFA to ₹ 10,000 cr. from present 2000 cr.
Funding would be used expand facility to all institutions, especially to ones that were set up after 2014, central universities that have very little internal resources & school education⟋health education infrastructure like AIIMS, Kendriya Vidyalayas.
CCEA has approved 5 windows for financing under HEFA & modalities of repaying Principal portion of fund:
Technical Institutions more than 10 years old
Technical Institutions started b⟋w 2008 & 2014
Central Universities started prior to 2014
Newly established Institutions started after 2014
Other educational institutions & grant-in-aid institutions of Ministry of Health
Move would enable addressing needs of all educational institutions w⟋differing financial capacity in inclusive manner.
Institution of Eminence Status Granted to IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay, BITS Pilani
Govt. granted Institutions of Eminence (IoEs) status to 6 institutions including 3 from Public Sector & 3 from Private Sector.
Decision was taken on basis of recommendations given by Empowered Expert Committee (EEC) .
List of selected Institutions:
Private Sector
Jio Institute (Reliance Foundation) , Pune under Green Field Category
Birla Institute of Technology & Sciences, Pilani, Rajasthan
Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka
Public Sector
Indian Institute of Science (IISc) , Bangalore, Karnataka
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) , Delhi
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) , Bombay
This decision grants full autonomy to institutes to help institutions grow rapidly & scale up their operations w⟋more skills & quality improvement so that they become World Class Institutions in field of education.
Aim is to bring selected higher educational institutions in world՚s top 500 in next 10 years & eventually in top 100.
Objective is to provide world-class teaching & research facilities to Indian students within country & enhance general level of education of country.