IIT-D, IIT-B, IISc granted status of ‘institution of eminence’
Manash.Gohain@timesgroup.com
New Delhi:10.07.2018
Government-run IIT-Delhi, IIT-Bombay and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore were granted the status of “institution of eminence” along with three private players on Monday giving them complete freedom to run their academic and research programmes in a manner which would help make them among the best in the world.
The private institutes which were also granted the status are BITS-Pilani, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Manipal and Jio Institute of Reliance Foundation, Greater Mumbai.
These institutions are now completely free from the regulations of the University Grants Commission.
While the government set a number of maximum 20 institutions (10 government and 10 private) to be given the status, the empowered experts committee (EEC) were not convinced by the 113 institutions’ application/ vision statement to offer them the status and thus forwarded lesser number of names to the government.
Among the private players, while MAHE and BITS-Pilani are well established institutions with Manipal celebrating its 25th year, the Reliance Foundation’s institution has been shortlisted under the “Greenfield” category, whose vision statement started with “to be the youngest global top 100 universities.”
In all 114 institutions (both public and private) applied after the government announced its decision to accord the status to 20 institutions. A great deal of autonomy is accorded with the status and the government institutions will get multicrore state funding as well.
Of the 114 institutions, EEC found 113 eligible and of that it forwarded less than 20 names to the government. Head of the EEX, former chief election commissioner Gopalaswami said: “We sent more than six names to the government. However, we sent only three private institution names and the number of government institutions were more. But the government to keep a parity chose three each, which is fine.”
While no disclosing the exact number the committee recommended to the government, Gopalaswami said that the other institutions had gaps in different areas that needs to be plugged to be considered for the eminence status. “In any case the government set 20 as the upper limit and not mandatory,” he added .
Manash.Gohain@timesgroup.com
New Delhi:10.07.2018
Government-run IIT-Delhi, IIT-Bombay and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore were granted the status of “institution of eminence” along with three private players on Monday giving them complete freedom to run their academic and research programmes in a manner which would help make them among the best in the world.
The private institutes which were also granted the status are BITS-Pilani, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Manipal and Jio Institute of Reliance Foundation, Greater Mumbai.
These institutions are now completely free from the regulations of the University Grants Commission.
While the government set a number of maximum 20 institutions (10 government and 10 private) to be given the status, the empowered experts committee (EEC) were not convinced by the 113 institutions’ application/ vision statement to offer them the status and thus forwarded lesser number of names to the government.
Among the private players, while MAHE and BITS-Pilani are well established institutions with Manipal celebrating its 25th year, the Reliance Foundation’s institution has been shortlisted under the “Greenfield” category, whose vision statement started with “to be the youngest global top 100 universities.”
In all 114 institutions (both public and private) applied after the government announced its decision to accord the status to 20 institutions. A great deal of autonomy is accorded with the status and the government institutions will get multicrore state funding as well.
Of the 114 institutions, EEC found 113 eligible and of that it forwarded less than 20 names to the government. Head of the EEX, former chief election commissioner Gopalaswami said: “We sent more than six names to the government. However, we sent only three private institution names and the number of government institutions were more. But the government to keep a parity chose three each, which is fine.”
While no disclosing the exact number the committee recommended to the government, Gopalaswami said that the other institutions had gaps in different areas that needs to be plugged to be considered for the eminence status. “In any case the government set 20 as the upper limit and not mandatory,” he added .
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