Lok Sabha Question No. 3597 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-08-08
Subject: Funds Allocation for Higher Education
Ministry: Education
Asked by: D. M. Kathir Anand, Anurag Sharma

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION

## LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO . 3597 TO BE ANSWERED ON 8 th  AUGUST, 2022

## Funds Allocation for Higher Education

## 3597.   SHRI D.M. KATHIR ANAND: SHRI ANURAG SHARMA:

Will the Minister of EDUCATION be pleased to state:

(a)  whether the Government has allocated funds for the development of State-of-art higher education and research infrastructure and advanced training and experiment facilities during the last five years;

- (b) if so the details thereof, State/year-wise including Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu; and

(c)  the  effective  measures  taken/proposed  to  be  taken  by  the  Government  to  improve  the  status  of Government  arts  and  science  colleges,  Government  engineering  colleges  in  terms  of  quality  and teaching and training facilities in the country especially in Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION (Dr. SUBHAS SARKAR)

(a)  to  (c):  The  Ministry  of  Education  has  taken  a  number  of  initiatives  for  development  of  higher education, research infrastructure, advanced training and experiment facilities. The Start Up India Indian Initiative for Higher Education Institutions (SIIHEI) is funding setting up of Research Parks with a total outlay of Rs. 575 Cr. Under this Scheme, Research Parks at IIT Madras, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati, IIT Bombay, IIT Hyderabad, IIT Kanpur, IISc Bangalore and IIT Gandhinagar have been supported to augment the research ecosystem in the country to enable the students to pursue their R&D interests in India, through innovative research.In addition, various schemes such as Uchchatar Avishkar Yojana  (UAY),  Impacting  Research  Innovation  and  Technology  (IMPRINT),  National  Initiative  for Design Innovation (NIDI), Scheme for Transformational and Advanced Research in Sciences (STARS), Indian  Knowledge  System  (IKS),  Idea  Development,  Evaluation  &  Application  (IDEA)-Lab  etc.  are implemented by the Ministry of Education for promotion of research ecosystem of country's  Higher Education Institutes. The Ministry also implements schemes for promotion of Research such as Prime Minister's  Research  Fellowship,  ASEAN  Fellowship  Scheme  and  Research  Promotion  scheme.  The Ministry of Education releases grants to  National Institutes of Technology (NITs), Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST) and Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) for their recurring and non-recurring activities based on the requirement/committed liabilities of these Institutes.  Further,  the  Central  Sector  Scheme  Pandit  Madan  Mohan  Malaviya  National  Mission  on Teachers and Teaching (PMMMNMTT) is a comprehensive scheme for Teachers / Faculties to address all  issues  related  to  their  Training  /  Capacity  Building  and  Professional  Development.  Under  the scheme, total  95  Centres have  been  established  throughout  the  country  including  7  Centres  in  Tamil Nadu and 11 Centres in Uttar Pradesh. The details of the scheme are accessible at https://nmtt.gov.in/. The  details  of  IKS  centres,  Design  Innovation  Centres  under  NIDI  scheme  and  grants  released  to various States including Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu during the last five year for NITs, IIEST and IIITs may be seen at https://www.education.gov.in/sites/upload\_files/mhrd/files/documentreports/funds\_he.pdf.

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