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The University Grants Commission (UGC) has recommended enhancement of the triple objectives of access and expansion, equity and inclusion, and quality and excellence in the higher education sector under the 12th Five Year Plan.
In its 12th Plan document compiling significant ideas on possible strategies for the Plan proposals submitted to the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development, the commission has proposed the Mission Mode National Programme of Enhancing Access.
“Rashtriya Uchch Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA), similar to the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), may be launched during the 12th Five Year Plan in order to attract a large number of youth coming out of expanded secondary education. Autonomous colleges which are identified as Colleges with Potential for Excellence (CPE) by the UGC and having a student strength of more than 3,000 can be converted into universities/PPP [public-private partnership] mode deemed to be universities,” says the document compiled by a team led by UGC Chairman Ved Prakash.