Atotal amount of Rs269 crore has been sanctioned for six projects in the State under the Rashtriya Ucchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA). Of this, Rs134.50 crore will be given during the current fiscal and same amount during the next fiscal. Pt SN Shukla Government Autonomous College, Shahdol will be upgraded to university. For this, Rs55 crore has been sanctioned. This was informed at a meeting of State Higher Education Council chaired by Higher and Technical Education Minister Umashankar Gupta here on Wednesday. Minister of State for Higher and School Education Deepak Joshi also attended the meeting.
The Minister directed to utilise sanctioned amount within time limit. He said that only practicable directives should be given. Once given, implementation of directives must be ensured at any cost. He said that monitoring should be strict, but its levels should be reduced.
Under RUSA, Indore, Gwalior and Jabalpur universities have been selected for infrastructure development. Each of them will get Rs20 crore. A sum of Rs12 crore each has been sanctioned for five new Model Colleges at Sheopur, Jhabua, Harda, Dindori and Umaria.
Government Colleges at Depalpura and Sihora will be upgraded to Model Colleges at a cost of Rs4 crore each. A sum of Rs26 crore has been sanctioned for establishing new engineering college at Dhar. A sum of Rs2 crore each will be given for infrastructure development to 30 colleges.
Principal Secretary Higher Education KK Singh, Project Director RUSA Ajit Kumar, Vice Chancellor of IGNOU, Delhi Nageshwar Rao, Vice Chancellor of Jiwaji University, Gwalior Sangeeta Shukla and other members of the committee attended the meeting.