A Rs2300-crore action plan has been proposed to improve the quality of higher education in Chhattisgarh under the ‘National Higher Education Mission’.
The action plan proposed for Twelfth Five Year Plan will be of three years duration, officials informed here on Tuesday. The proposal has been sent to Union Ministry of Human Resources Development for approval where it will be presented before the Project Approval Board, they stated.
This was informed in a meeting of State Higher Education Council held here under the chairmanship of Higher Education Minister Prem Prakash Pandey in the Mantralaya here.
It was informed in the meeting that preparations are underway and the plan will be executed from next month onwards after getting the necessary approvals. Pandey also gave in-principle approval for mutual agreement between Chhattisgarh Higher Education Department and Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai for setting up a Policy Research and leadership Development Academy in Chhattisgarh.
Pandey held discussions with Dr V Vyankatesh and Priyanka Srivastava of Tata Institute of Social Sciences besides Secretary, Higher Education, Dr Bl Agarwal in this regard. The agreement will soon be inked for the national-level academy.
Secretary of Higher Education Department Dr Bl Agrawal said that leadership development training programmes for vice-chancellors, registrars, principals and teachers of colleges could also be organised in the proposed Academy. Pandey informed the departmental officers that a letter will soon be written to Union HRD Ministry for establishing a Regional Office of NAAC in Chhattisgarh.
He said that Gross Enrollment Ratio (GER) of Durg, Raipur and Bilaspur districts has crossed the national average.