HRD Minsiter Smriti Irani said the government will soon make 20 educational institutes each from private and public sector world-class

Updated on: Monday, March 14, 2016

hrd After Rajya Sabha members showed concern that Indian universities were nowhere in the global top ranking list, Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani on Friday, March 11, showed concern saying "the government will soon make 20 educational institutes each from private and public sector world-class." Also, this move was announced during the Budget 2016.

HRD Minsiter Smriti Irani also said that national ranking framework has been designed with some standards, with over 5,000 of them adding themselves to the framework..

Moreover, relying to a private members bill to regulate all professional colleges by CPI(M) member K K Ragesh, she said, "Unfortunately, many in this House and across the country will accept that education has become more or less a pursuit of certification and less about pursuit of excellence."

Stating on the exorbitant fees levied by the private engineering colleges, HRD minister Smriti Irani said, "To monitor all this a regulatory system is already keeping a track on private institutes and this issue has been addressed in the anticipated policy named New Educational Policy(NEP)."

Last year also UGC recognised 21 fake institutes running in the country without the permission of the government . Thus, the students were informed by sending a public notice.

In order to ensure that the students of disadvantaged community get admission in technical programmes by paying nominal fees, HRD Minister Smriti Irani said further added, "The HRD ministry is planning to launch -- Study Webs of Active-Learning for Young Aspiring Mind (SWAYAM) -- a Massive Open Online Course(MOOC) that will start next year.

Further commenting on the regulatory powers of the technical institute, that are controlled by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) , she said that the government has made laws to punish those institutes that charge high fees from the candidates. The AICTE has already approved the recommendations of Justice Sri Krishna's national fee committee.

A mobile app, "Know Your College" has been started by two educational regulators -- UGC and AICTE, to give information to the students regarding professionals appointed and registered in academic colleges.

She also added, "If any institution is lying or misleading the public with regard to information, but they have registered with regulators, then the concerned student or citizen or parent can bring it to the notice of the regulator and the regulator takes the appropriate action."

HRD Minsiter Smriti Irani said the government will soon make 20 educational institutes each from private and public sector world-class

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