Jabalpur Engineering College, GS Institute of Technology and Science Indore and Government Autonomous College Shahdol are proposed to be upgraded to universities under Rashtriya Uchhatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA). Every college will get Rs55 crore for this.
Bhopal will have State Academic Staff College for faculty improvement. Proposal of a cluster university has also been sent. For this, Rs55 crore will be provided. Besides, training colleges will be opened at five other places. These proposals were approved at a meeting of RUSA council chaired by Higher Education Minister Umashankar Gupta here on Sunday.
Gupta said autonomous colleges have been upgraded to universities at all divisional headquarters which do not have a university. He directed to prepare a proposal of upgradation of medical, music and agriculture colleges.
Gupta said that every university must have a training centre and further directed to officials concerned to undertake a study of less Gross Enrollment Ratio (GER) colleges at Umaria, Khargone, Katni, Dindori and Singrauli and launch a special campaign to increase GER.
Gupta directed to prepare DPR of proposed works at the earliest. The meeting also discussed establishment of Central Research University.
The universities will also get Rs20 crore per annum for library, labs, equipments, hostel etc. Rs12 crore will be given for developing Model College. Similarly, Rs112.80 crore will be given to 56 new and 20 other colleges for infrastructure development. Colleges at Sheopur, Timarni, Shahpura, PG College Jhabua and Veer Singh Poly College will be developed as model colleges.
A proposal has also been chalked out to upgrade colleges at Dhamnod, Parasia, Amla, Mandleshwar, Barwani Girls College, Petlawad, Depalpur and Rajgarh. Professional colleges will be opened at Dhar, Katni and Rajgarh.
A sum of Rs26 crore has been sanctioned for every college. For research and innovation, nine universities and 9 colleges have been selected for which universities will get Rs100 lakh each and colleges Rs50 lakh each. A proposal has been chalked out for sanctioning Rs55 crore for research in technical education.
Similarly, financial assistance will be given for equity, initiative, faculty recruitment support, faculty improvement and vocational training under RUSA. State will get Rs15 crore for vocational training.
Principal Secretary Higher Education KK Singh, Principal Secretary Culture and Commercial Taxes Manoj Shrivastava, Principal Secretary Education Sanjay Singh, Principal Secretary Medical Education Ajay Tirkey and other officers were present on the occasion.