Lok Sabha Question No. 1213 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-07-25
Subject: Achievements by the Ministry
Ministry: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: JAYADEV GALLA

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

## LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1213 TO BE ANSWERED ON 25.07.2016

## Achievements by the Ministry

1213. SHRI JAYADEV GALLA:

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

- (a) the details of achievements of the Ministry during the last three years and the current year;
- (b)  whether  any  presentation-was  made  before  the  Prime  Minister  about  the  Ministry's  achievements during the said period and if so, the details thereof;
- (c) where the Ministry has fallen short of its targets and where it has excelled;
- (d) the targets set for the coming three years and roadmap to achieve the same;
- (e) the details of difficulties brought before the Prime Minister and suggestions made to overcome them; and
- (f) the details of core areas the Ministry is going to focus on in the coming three years?

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

## (DR. MAHENDRA NATH PANDEY)

- (a) to (f) :      The major achievements of the Ministry, inter alia, include:
- I. Higher Education
- (i)    Expansion  of  institutions  of  higher  education  by  setting  up  of  new  institutions  (  6  Indian  Institute  of Management, 2  Indian Institute of Technology, 1 Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, 1 Central  University,  1  Centrally  funded  Institute  of  Information  Technology  in  Public-Private-Partnership mode),

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(ii)  Global Initiatives for Academics Network (GIAN) initiative to bring together foreign and Indian faculties to  teach  in  academic  course  that  provides  the  credit  to  participating  students  selected  from  the  world's leading academic institutions,

(iii)  Uchchatar Aavishkar Abhiyan programme to promote industry-specific need-based research so as to keep up the competitiveness of the Indian industry in the global market. All the IITs have been encouraged to  work  with  the  industry  to  identify  areas  where  innovation  is  required  and  come  up  with  solutions  that could be brought up to the commercialization level,

(iv) Impacting Research innovation and Technology (IMPRINT) India is an effort to direct research in the premier institutions into areas of social relevance,

(v) Ranking of institutions under National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF),

(vi)  The  Unnat  Bharat  Abhiyan  has  been  launched  to  use  the  knowledge  base  in  the  higher  education institution for plugging technology gaps in the rural areas,

(vii)    Towards Vocational Education System and Skill Development , the UGC has launched a number of schemes for making higher education relevant to the needs of the society and industry, namely: Career Oriented Courses (COC), Community Colleges (CC), introduction of degrees in vocational subjects and Pandit  Deen  Dayal  Upadhyaya Knowledge Acquisition and Up gradation of Skilled Human Abilities and Livelihood (KAUSHAL) centres in line with National Skills Qualifications Framework (NSQF),

Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya KAUSHAL Centres have been approved by the UGC in 64 universities and colleges. These Centres will function as the apex centres for Skill Development in Universities and colleges and will also offer Masters course in skill education,

Government has also launched Skill Assessment Matrix for Vocational Advancement of Youth (SAMVAY ) to facilitate mobility from general to vocational education, and vice-versa,

Under Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana, around 10,000 technical institutions in the country will train at least 100 unemployed youth each,

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(viii)      UGC  has  amended  its  minimum  standards  and  procedure  for  award  of  M.  Phil/Ph.D  degrees Regulations by allowing a relaxation of one year for M.Phil and two years for Ph.D for persons with more than 40% disability. Similar relaxations have been made in the cases of women candidates for M.Phil/Ph.d with allowance of maternity leave/child care leave for upto 240 days,

(ix)  Scholarship  assistance  has  been  enhanced  by  55%  across  the  board  for  all  UGC  scholars/fellows. They  are  on  Direct  Benefit  Transfer  (DBT)  mode  and  all  payments  are  undertaken  through  the  Public Financial Management System (PFMS),

(x) Evolution of a New Education Policy to  meet the changing dynamics of the population's requirement with regard to quality education, innovation and research, aiming to make India a knowledge superpower by  equipping  its  students  with  the  necessary  skills  and  knowledge  and  to  eliminate  the  shortage  of manpower in science, technology, academics and industry,

(xi)  Implementation  of  Pandit  Madan  Mohan  Malaviya  National  Mission  on  Teachers  &  Teaching (PMMMNMTT), a Central Sector Scheme, with all India coverage to address issues of supply of qualified teachers, attracting talent into teaching profession, raising the quality of teaching in schools and colleges, building a strong professional cadre of teachers and creating top class institutional facilities for innovative teaching and professional development of teachers,

(xii)   Know Your College Portal has been launched to make available to the aspiring students the details of various education institutions available in the country,

(xiii)      Joint  counseling  has  been  implemented  for  the  first  time  for  admission  of  students  in  various undergraduate  programmes  of  IITs,  ISM,  NITs,  IIITs  and  other  CFTIs/GFTIs  thus  doing    away  with multiplicity of counseling  sessions per student,

(xiv)  Decision to provide free education to differently abled students in the IITs to bring in a more inclusive and empathetic development in premier institutes of learning. The SC/ST/PH students shall get complete fee waiver.

(xv)  Introduction of Choice Based Credit System (CBCS ) in all Indian Universities and guidelines issued by UGC allowing for seamless mobility of students across the Indian Universities similar system of evaluation in all universities with uniform syllabus to the extent of 70% in Undergraduate courses, syllabus designed for 107 undergraduate course have been uploaded on UGC website, and

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(xvi)    Saksham  Scholarship  Scheme  is  being  implemented  through  All  India  Council  for  Technical Education  (AICTE)  to  provide  encouragement  and  support  to  1000  differently  abled  students  to  pursue technical education in a year.

II. School Education

(i) Under Swachh Vidyalay initiative, 4.17 lakh (2.66 lakh new and 1.51 lakh repaired) school toilets were constructed,

(ii) Udaan programme has been implemented to ensure quality education for girl child and to enable them to get enrolment in technical education through academic support,

(iii) Recognising the specific needs of the students of North-East, two schemes viz., Ishan Uday and Ishan Vikas have been launched. Ishan Uday is for providing  10,000 UG/PG scholarships for students and  Ishan  Vikas  is  for  giving  exposure  to  Class  IX  and  Class  XI  students  to    premier  institutes  [IITs, National  Institutes  of  Technology  (NITs)  and  Indian  Institutes  of  Science  Education  and  Research (IISERs)],

(iv) To increase learning outcomes in children, initiatives like  Padhe Bharat Badhe Bharat with focus on ensuring that learning levels of Class I and II students is at par with the world and Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan with focus on science and mathematics and training of more than 1 lakh science and mathematics teachers etc.,

(v) Initiatives have been taken to monitor performance in school via E-Governance. Saransh is a tool for  comprehensive self-review  and  analysis  for  CBSE  affiliated  schools  and  parents.  It  enables  them  to analyze  students'  performance  in  order  to  take  remedial  measures.  Shaala  Darpan  is  to  track    child's school  activities  and  performances  with  regular  updates  through  SMS  and  website  thereby  bringing Transparency. Shaala Siddhi is a comprehensive school evaluation system focused on well-defined quality based parameters. More than 70% of Government Schools in India have been mapped on a GIS platform to help in policy and planning, and

(vi) e-Pathshala & e-CBSE has been created  to provide the students, teachers, parents and educators with free access to all NCERT and CBSE textbooks anytime, anywhere.

Details of the achievements are available on the website of the ministry (www.mhrd.gov.in).

Within the available resources, intra-sectoral priorities are so determined to optimally achieve the stated  goals  of  education  sector  i.e.  expansion,  equity  and  quality.  Consolidation  of  the  existing infrastructure with minimal expansion will continue to be thrust area of the Ministry in future.

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