Lok Sabha Question No. 4081 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-03-27
Subject: Inter University Collaboration
Ministry: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: RAMESH POKHRIYAL NISHANK

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4081 TO BE ANSWERED ON 27.03.2017

## Inter University Collaboration

## †4081. DR. RAMESH POKHRIYAL 'NISHANK' :

## Will the Minister of HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  steps  have  been  taken  by  the  Ministry  to  improve  the  international rankings of Indian Educational Institutions and if so, the details thereof;
- (b) whether the Government has also formulated any scheme to encourage signing agreement  by  Indian  universities  with  foreign  education  institutions,  if  so,  the details thereof;
- (c) the steps taken by the Government to encourage the collaboration of private and Government universities in research activities;
- (d) whether  the  teachers/scholars  engaged  in  research  works  are  being  provided incentives and the measures being taken to include the private sector in research projects;
- (e) the position of the country with regards to the publication of research work done by the Universities during the last three years; and
- (f) whether any proposal to set up effective monitoring mechanism in this regard is under consideration of the Government and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

## (DR. MAHENDRA NATH PANDEY)

(a):In  order  to  improve  the  international  rankings  of  Indian  educational  institutions,  the Ministry has formulated a scheme for promoting the institutions of eminence under which (10)  public  and  (10)  private  institutions  would  be  selected  for  providing  regulatory liberalisation and financial support (only case of public institutions).  Apart from that, special projects have been prepared by (7) Indian Institute of Technology and Indian Institute of Science for promotion of research and infrastructure for improving their rankings.  Under this collaborative research, joint supervision of PhDs  with  foreign  Universities are proposed.

In order to provide impetus to research, special interventions like IMPRINT and Uchhatar Avishkar  Yojna  (UAY)  are  being  implemented.    In  UAY,  the  research  projects  are implemented in collaboration with the industry. (b): University Grants Commission (UGC) has notified UGC (Promotion and Maintenance of Standards of Academic  Collaboration between Indian and Foreign Educational Institutions) Regulations, 2016  which  allow  Indian institutions to enter into twining arrangement  with  foreign  institutions  as  a  way  of  bringing  in  cutting  edge  and  quality education. AICTE has set norms for regulating collaboration and twining program between Indian and Foreign University/Institutions in the field of Technical Education Research and Training.  IIT  Council  has  also  approved  proposal  to  implement  a  host  of  measures  for building world class laboratories, collective research and global outreach for improving the rankings of IITs. Scheme  (RPS),Quality Improvement Programme  (QIP),Research  Park (RP),  INAE-

(c) to (f): To encourage private as well as public sector to work in tandem with universities in the field of research,  AICTE is implementing the schemes namely Research Promotion Teachers  Research  Fellowship  (TRF).  Further,  the  M.Tech.  stipend  for  GATE  qualified students  has  been  enhanced  to  Rs.  12,400  per  month  for  incentivising  the  research programmes.

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