Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that priority should be attached in providing smartphone to students taking admission in the Government colleges in next academic session. A transparent process should be laid down for this.
All university and college campuses should be provided wi-fi facility. He was reviewing activities of Higher Education Department here on Thursday. He directed to chalk out schemes for improving higher education’s quality. The Chief Minister will himself hold discussions with professors and college principals regarding this. Higher Education Minister Umashankar Gupta, Minister of State for
Higher Education Deepak Joshi and Chief Secretary Anthony DeSa were also present on the occasion. Chouhan reviewed 100-day action plan of the department. He directed to chalk out a scheme for seeking cooperation of industrial houses for infrastructure of colleges through discussions with them.
The meeting was informed that 10 colleges have been selected for lifting their excellence to the national level. These include Institute for Higher Education Bhopal, Holkar Science College Indore, TRS College Rewa, Adarsh Vigyan Mahavidyalaya Jabalpur, Government Girls College Sagar, Maharaja College Chhatarpur, Jijabai Government College Sagar, Kamla Raje College Gwalior, Government Sarojini Naidu College Bhopal and Government Madhav College Ujjain.
The Chief Minister directed to select minimum one college in every division. He directed to fix norms for allotting funds to universities. Buildings of colleges should be constructed within time-limit.
Special attention should be paid to implementation of Higher Education loan Guarantee Scheme. No student in the State should remain deprived of education due to paucity of money. labs and libraries of all colleges should be upgraded.
Felicitate professors for excellent performance and act against poor performers. Higher Education Grants Commission’s recommendations should be strictly implemented in colleges.
World Bank’s scheme to improve quality of higher education should be improved further. Implementation of Gaon Ki Beti and Pratibha Kiran schemes should be monitored regularly. Department’s annual action plan should be reviewed quarterly.
The meeting was informed that action has been started to fill up vacancies of professors and other staff by Higher Education Department. As many as 20 job fairs have been held in the state under Vivekananda Carreer Guidance Scheme. Internal reforms scheme for universities is being chalked out.
Two departments of every university have been selected to be developed as excellent ones. Under infrastructure development, 58 buildings are under-construction.