Lok Sabha Question No. 253 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-12-18
Subject: Setting up of Universities
Ministry: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: MAULANA BADRUDDIN AJMAL

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

## LOK  SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 253 TO BE ANSWERED ON 18 th  DECEMBER, 2017

## Setting up of Universities

253. SHRI BADRUDDIN AJMAL: Will the Minister of HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state: (a) whether the Government has received proposals/demands regarding setting up of new National Universities or upgradation of existing universities into national universities from various States of the country; (b) if so, the details thereof, State-wise including Assam; (c) the number of national universities proposed, to be established in the country in the current year and next year, State-wise; and (d) if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor? ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (DR. SATYA PAL SINGH) (a)  to  (d):  Education  being  in  the  concurrent  list,  creation  of  new  institutions  is  the responsibility  of  both  Central  Government  and  the  State  Governments.    Further,  the Central Government has taken a policy decision not to convert State Universities into Central  Universities  for  reasons  of  legacy  issues,  adjustment  of  existing  staff  and disaffiliation of affiliated colleges. At present, no proposal to accord the status of Central University to any State University  is  under  consideration  of  the  Government.  However,  the  Andhra  Pradesh Reorganization  Act,  2014  provides  for  establishment  of  one  Central  University  in  the successor  State  of  Andhra  Pradesh  and  one  Tribal  University  each  in  the  State  of Andhra Pradesh and in the State of Telangana. Further,  the  Government  has  approved  the  scheme  of  providing  Regulatory

Architecture for  setting  up/upgrading  of  20  Institutions  (10  from  Public  Sector  and  10

from  Private  Sector)  as  world  class  teaching  and  research  institutions  known  as 'Institutions of Eminence'.  The Regulatory Architecture has been provided in the form of UGC (Declaration of Government Institutions as Institutions of Eminence) Guidelines, 2017  for public Institutions  and  UGC  (Institutions  of  Eminence  Deemed  to  be Universities ) Regulations, 2017 for private Institutions.

Also under the Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA), central assistance is provided to States/UTs, inter alia , for setting up of  State  universities  either  by  the  way  of  clustering  of  colleges  or  by  upgradation  of existing  autonomous  colleges.  The  State/UT-wise  details  of  number  of  universities approved for creation under RUSA are as under:

|   S.No | Name of State/UT   | Creation of Universities by way of upgradation of existing autonomous colleges   | Creation of Universities by conversion of colleges in a cluster   |
|--------|--------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
|      1 | Andhra Pradesh     | -                                                                                | 1                                                                 |
|      2 | Himachal Pradesh   | -                                                                                | 1                                                                 |
|      3 | Jammu & Kashmir    | -                                                                                | 2                                                                 |
|      4 | Jharkhand          | 2                                                                                | -                                                                 |
|      5 | Karnataka          | 1                                                                                | 1                                                                 |
|      6 | Madhya Pradesh     | 1                                                                                | -                                                                 |
|      7 | Maharashtra        | -                                                                                | 1                                                                 |
|      8 | Manipur            | -                                                                                | 1                                                                 |
|      9 | Odisha             | 2                                                                                | 1                                                                 |
|     10 | Uttar Pradesh      | 1                                                                                | -                                                                 |
|     11 | Puducherry         | 1                                                                                | -                                                                 |
|     12 | Total              | 8                                                                                | 8                                                                 |

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