Higher and Technical Education Minister Umashankar Gupta has said that appraisal of all colleges should be ensured on the lines of NAAC.
He was addressing a meeting of Higher Education Council constituted under Rashtriya Ucchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) here on Tuesday.
Gupta directed to make available information of all colleges as on December 31, 2014. Minister of State for Higher Education Deepak Joshi was also present on the occasion.
Gupta said that an action plan should be chalked out to increase students’ enrolment in colleges by 2 per cent per annum. Targets to be set under the action plan must be achieved within time-limit. Gross enrolment rate has to be increased by 30 per cent from present 20.4 per cent by year 2020. Gupta said that all members should play active role to ensure campaign’s success. Cluster universities to come up at Dewas and Satna.
State Government has chalked out a plan to upgrade Shahdol and Jabalpur autonomous colleges and Indore engineering college to universities. Cluster universities will be set up at Dewas and Satna.
A sum of `200 crore will be given for development to 10 universities including Bhopal. Model colleges will be opened in SC, ST and backward class-dominated areas Sheopur, Timarni, Shahpura, Jhabua and Birsinghpur. Similarly, government colleges at Dhamnod, Parasia, Amla, Mandleshwar, Barwani, Petlawad, Depalpur and Sihora will also be upgraded to model colleges.
A detailed proposal has been chalked out for research and innovations. A sum of `5 crore will be given for research and innovations to 41 colleges in rural and tribal areas, 11 universities and one technical university.
Commissioner Higher Education Sachin Sinha informed about the proposal. Council’s members Principal Secretary Higher Education KK Singh and Principal Secretary Technical Education Sanjay Singh also gave important suggestions.