Eleventh Five Year Plan

26 Eleventh Five Year Planstudent outreach. The Governing Board should beleft free to evolve policies relating to donations,endowments, scholarships, instituting Chairs,accumulation and deployment of reserves andsurpluses, keeping in mind the overarching principleof equity while fixing fees and determiningthe amount of scholarships.Quantitative Expansion1.3.24 Quantitative expansion in enrolment will beachieved through: expansion of existing institutions,both government and private; creation of new government(Central and States) funded universities andcolleges; facilitating/removing barriers in creation ofnew universities and colleges; special programmes fortargeted expansion in CU; support to State universitiesand colleges, and additional assistance to under-fundedinstitutions; the implementation of recommendationsof the Oversight Committee (OSC), would be subjectto final order of the Supreme Court. Focus on accessand affordability in SCs, STs, OBCs, and minority concentrationdistricts and implementation of the recommendationsof the Sachar Committee with respect toeducational development of the Muslim community.Inclusive Education1.3.25 The objective of inclusiveness will be achievedthrough the following:• Reduction of regional imbalances;• Support to institutions located in border, hilly,remote, small towns, and educationally backwardareas;• Support to institutions with larger student populationof SCs, STs, OBCs, minorities, and physicallychallenged;• Support to the SCs, STs, OBCs, minorities, physicallychallenged, and girl students with special scholarships/fellowships,hostel facilities, remedial coaching,and other measures;• Setting up of an ‘Equal Opportunity Office’ in alluniversities to bring all schemes relating to this groupunder one umbrella for effective implementation.Quality Improvement1.3.26 Quality improvement in higher education willbe brought about through restructuring academicprogrammes to ensure their relevance to modernmarket demands; domestic and global linkages withemployers and external advisory resource supportgroups and tracer studies; greater emphasis on recruitmentof adequate and good quality teachers; completerevamping of teaching/learning methods by shiftingfrom traditional repetitive experiments to open-endeddesign-oriented work for encouraging invention andinnovation; compulsory interactive seminar-tutorials,broadening the content of Science and engineeringprogrammes to strengthen fundamental concepts,improving learning opportunities and conditionsby updating text books and learning material; andimproving self-directed learning with modern aids anddevelopment of IT network.New CU1.3.27 30 CU will be set up including 16 on the basisof one CU in each of the 16 uncovered States such asBihar, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, HimachalPradesh, J&K, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, MP,Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, andUttarakhand. The Indira Gandhi National Tribal Universitywill be set up as a CU. In addition, it is proposedto establish 14 new CU aiming at world classstandards. These universities will be set up through asingle umbrella Central legislation and will be subjectto the State providing land free of cost and signinga Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a minimumset of educational reforms in its universitysystem whereby the new institutions serve as benchmarksof excellence for other universities and colleges.1.3.28 The proposed 14 World Class Universities(WCU) need to be carefully planned to have variousschools including medical and engineering. Theirestablishment should be implemented in a creativemode, by setting up an autonomous project teamcomprising eminent people for each of the proposedWCU, who would design and implement the projectcreatively. The location of these institutions should bedetermined by competitively evaluating alternativeoffers of land by State. The location decision shouldbalance the desire for achieving a greater geographicalspread and the potential synergies arising from colocationwith the existing reputed institutions andlaboratories (e.g., Council of Scientific and Industrial