Lok Sabha Question No. 25 (STARRED), answered on 2024-02-05
Subject: Centrally Sponsored Schemes for Higher Education
Ministry: Education
Asked by: Poonam (Mahajan) Vajendla Rao

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

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 25 ANSWERED ON 05.02.2024

## CENTRALLY SPONSORED SCHEMES FOR HIGHER EDUCATION

## *25. SHRIMATI POONAM MAHAJAN:

Will the Minister of EDUCATION be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has any Centrally Sponsored Educational Scheme(s) for the improvement of Higher Education in the country;
- (b) if so, the details thereof;
- (c) the number of institutions benefited by such schemes of Higher Education during each of the last five years, State-wise; and
- (d) the targets fixed and achieved during the said period under these schemes?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF EDUCATION (SHRI DHARMENDRA PRADHAN)

- (a) to (d) A statement is laid on the table of the House

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STATEMENT  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PARTS  (A)  TO  (D)  OF  LOK  SABHA STARRED  QUESTION  NO.  25  ANSWERED  ON  05.02.2024  ASKED  BY  SHRIMATI POONAM MAHAJAN, HON'BLE MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT REGARDING CENTRALLY SPONSORED SCHEMES FOR HIGHER EDUCATION

- (a) & (b): Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) was a Centrally Sponsored Scheme aimed at funding the specific State government universities and colleges, so as to improve the overall quality of existing  state  higher  educational  institutions  by  ensuring  their  conformity  to  prescribed  norms  and standards. The 2 nd phase of the scheme was approved in March 2018 and the third phase of RUSA in the form of Pradhan Mantri Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (PM-USHA) was launched in June 2023 with an outlay of Rs. 12926.10 crore for the period 2023-24 to 2025-26 to cater to needs of educationally unserved/underserved areas.

(c)  The  number of units approved under the scheme State-wise and  year-wise in the last five  years since 2018-19 to 2022-23 under RUSA is available at Annexure-I.

(d)  The  details  of  targets  fixed  and  approved  under  different  components  of  RUSA  in  the  last  five years since 2018-19 to 2022-23 are available at Annexure-II.

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## ANNEXURE-I

ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (C)  OF  LOK  SABHA  STARRED QUESTION  NO.  25  ANSWERED  ON  05.02.2024  ASKED  BY  SHRIMATI  POONAM MAHAJAN, HON'BLE MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT REGARDING CENTRALLY SPONSORED SCHEMES FOR HIGHER EDUCATION

## NUMBER OF UNITS APPROVED UNDER THE SCHEME STATE-WISE AND YEAR-WISE IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS

|   S. No. | States/UTs Name   |   Units approved in 2018-19 |   Units approved in 2019-20 |
|----------|-------------------|-----------------------------|-----------------------------|
|        1 | Andhra Pradesh    |                          48 |                          19 |
|        2 | Arunachal Pradesh |                          10 |                           0 |
|        3 | Assam             |                         136 |                           2 |
|        4 | Bihar             |                          17 |                          17 |
|        5 | Chandigarh        |                           6 |                           1 |
|        6 | Chhattisgarh      |                          13 |                          10 |
|        7 | Goa               |                           7 |                           0 |
|        8 | Gujarat           |                          43 |                           6 |
|        9 | Haryana           |                          34 |                           5 |
|       10 | Himachal Pradesh  |                          30 |                           1 |
|       11 | Jammu &Kashmir    |                          18 |                           7 |
|       12 | Jharkhand         |                          27 |                           9 |
|       13 | Karnataka         |                          32 |                           9 |
|       14 | Kerala            |                         127 |                           6 |
|       15 | Madhya Pradesh    |                          49 |                          18 |
|       16 | Maharashtra       |                          63 |                           6 |
|       17 | Manipur           |                          16 |                          70 |
|       18 | Meghalaya         |                          17 |                           0 |
|       19 | Mizoram           |                          17 |                          74 |
|       20 | Nagaland          |                           6 |                           4 |
|       21 | Odisha            |                          28 |                           4 |
|       22 | Puducherry        |                           1 |                           1 |
|       23 | Punjab            |                           5 |                           0 |
|       24 | Rajasthan         |                          15 |                           7 |
|       25 | Sikkim            |                           5 |                          50 |
|       26 | Tamil Nadu        |                          19 |                          13 |
|       27 | Telangana         |                          15 |                          17 |
|       28 | Tripura           |                          10 |                           2 |
|       29 | Uttar Pradesh     |                           0 |                           8 |
|       30 | Uttarakhand       |                          24 |                           2 |
|       31 | West Bengal       |                         119 |                           2 |

Note: In the last 5 years, the Project Approval Board (PAB) Meetings of RUSA were held only in years 2018-19 and 2019-20.

## ANNEXURE-II

ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (D)  OF  LOK  SABHA  STARRED QUESTION  NO.  25  ANSWERED  ON  05.02.2024  ASKED  BY  SHRIMATI  POONAM MAHAJAN, HON'BLE MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT REGARDING CENTRALLY SPONSORED SCHEMES FOR HIGHER EDUCATION

## COMPONENT -WISE TARGET SET AND APPROVALS GIVEN UNDER RUSA IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS (2018-19 to 2022-23)

|   S. No. | Component Name                                                                 |   Target number of Units |   Approved number of Units |
|----------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------|----------------------------|
|        1 | Creation of Universities by way of Upgradation of Existing Autonomous Colleges |                        3 |                          3 |
|        2 | Creation of Universities by Conversion of Colleges in a Cluster                |                        3 |                          2 |
|        3 | Excellence &Quality Enhancement of Universities                                |                       10 |                         10 |
|        4 | Infrastructure Grants to Universities                                          |                       50 |                         42 |
|        5 | New Model Degree Colleges                                                      |                       70 |                         70 |
|        6 | Upgradation of Existing Degree Colleges to Model Colleges                      |                       75 |                         75 |
|        7 | New Colleges (Professional &Technical)                                         |                        8 |                          8 |
|        8 | Infrastructure Grants to Colleges                                              |                      750 |                        750 |
|        9 | Enhancing Quality &Excellence in Select Autonomous Colleges                    |                       70 |                         70 |
|       10 | Research, Innovation and Quality Improvement                                   |                       20 |                         20 |
|       11 | Equity Initiatives                                                             |                       15 |                         15 |
|       12 | Faculty Recruitment Support                                                    |                      200 |                        187 |
|       13 | Faculty Improvement Support                                                    |                        8 |                          8 |
|       14 | Preparatory Grants                                                             |                       30 |                         30 |

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