In order to improve the quality of technical education, the Uttar Pradesh government is planning to implement a state-level ranking system -- State Institutional Ranking Framework -- on the lines of NIRF (National Institute Ranking Framework). It will be a data driven approach to analyse the performance of public and private technical universities.
Secretary, technical and vocational education, Alok Kumar, shared this information through his twitter handle. “Soon Technical Education department UP government will come up with a state institutional ranking framework (SIRF) to rank its technical institutions and monitor their progress over important indicators like admission, research and placement,” he tweeted.
The UPSIRF will be a pioneering attempt towards creating world class institutions in the state, using a highly credible and transparent framework wholly based on objective data. The clear focus will be on helping the institutes identify areas of improvements, bridge the gaps and achieve excellence regionally, nationally and globally.
The institutions will be rated on the basis of their performance and this will also provide a measure to the government to give grants accordingly. The SIRF will compel the institutes to strive hard in achieving a good rank and will create a healthy competition among the institutions.
On the instructions of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, taking concrete steps for revamping higher education in Uttar Pradesh, the government is working on to implement this system assessing the key strengths of institutions across a wide framework.
Uttar Pradesh has three technical universities – Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University, Harcourt Butler Technical University, Kanpur and Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology in Gorakhpur.