The Department of Higher Education of India's Ministry for Human Resource Development has released the Education Quality Upgradation and Inclusion Programme (EQUIP).

Photo: India’s Minister for Human Resource Development, Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal’ Nishank’, chairing a meeting with the Directors of all IITs and IIITs, in New Delhi on June 14, 2019. Secretary, Department of Higher Education, R. Subrahmanyam, is on his left.

New Delhi, June 28, 2019 — Following the decision of the Prime Minister for finalizing a five-year vision plan for each Ministry, the Department of Higher Education of HRD Ministry has released a five-year vision plan named Education Quality Upgradation and Inclusion Programme (EQUIP). The experts have prepared EQUIP covering the following ten areas:

Group Number. Group Focus — Chairperson

Strategies for expanding access — Hasmukh Adhia, Chancellor, Central University Gujarat
Improving teaching/learning process — Dr. K. Kasturirangan, Chancellor, Central University of Rajasthan & former Secretary, Dept of Space; former Chairman - ISRO
Promoting Excellence — Pawan Goenka, Chairman, BoG, IIT Madras
Governance reforms — Prof M S Ananth, Chairman, National Testing Agency (NTA)
Assessment, Accreditation & Ranking systems — Prof Surendra Prasad, former Director, IIT Delhi
Promotion of research & innovation — Dr. Vijaya Raghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser to PM
Employability & entrepreneurship — Ajit Balakrishnan, former Chairman, IIM Kolkata
Using Technology for better reach — Prof Deepak Pathak, Chairman, NIT Goa & Prof IIT Bombay
Internationalization — Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog
Financing higher education — Kris Gopalakrishnan, former CEO, Infosys.

The ten Expert Groups, which consist of senior academicians, administrators, and industrialists, have suggested more than 50 initiatives that would transform the higher education sector completely. Groups have set the following goals for the higher education sector:

Double the Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in higher education and resolve the geographically and socially skewed access to higher education institutions in India:
Upgrade the quality of education to world standards
Position at least 50 Indian institutions among the top-1000 global universities
Introduce governance reforms in higher education for well-administered campuses
Accreditation of all institutions as an assurance of quality
Promote Research & Innovation ecosystems for positioning India in the Top-3 countries in the world in matters of knowledge creation
Double the employability of the students passing out of higher education
Harness education technology for expanding the reach and improving pedagogy
Promote India as a global study destination
Achieve a quantum increase in investment in higher education

For each initiative, the Groups have recommended modalities for implementation, investments, and timelines. The proposal would now be taken for inter-departmental consultations before being taken to Cabinet for approval.

Source: Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India

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June 30, 2019

The Department of Higher Education of India's Ministry for Human Resource Development has released the Education Quality Upgradation and Inclusion Programme (EQUIP).