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March 20, 2018

India's University Grants Commission grants Autonomy to 60 Higher Educational Institutions

Photo: India’s Minister for Human Resource Development, Prakash Javadekar, briefing media on the decision of granting autonomous status to 60 higher educational institutions, in New Delhi on March 20, 2018.

The University Grants Commission (UGC) of India has granted autonomy to sixty Higher Educational Institutions. This was announced by the Minister of Human Resource Development, Prakash Javadekar, at a media briefing in New Delhi today. Javadekar said that the Government is striving to introduce a liberalized regime in the education sector and emphasis is on linking autonomy with quality.

Giving further details, Javadekar said that the sixty Higher Educational Institutions which have been granted autonomy include 52 Universities i.e. 5 central universities, 21 state universities, 24 deemed universities, and 2 private universities. Javadekar explained that these universities will remain within the ambit of UGC but will have the freedom to start new courses, off campus centers, skill development courses, research parks and any other new academic programs. They will also have the freedom to hire foreign faculty, enroll foreign students, give incentive based emoluments to the faculty, enter into academic collaborations and run open distance learning programmes.

Eight colleges have also been granted autonomy, the HRD Minister said. The eight autonomous collages will be free to set their own syllabus, hold examinations, carry out evaluation as well as declare results. In this case, only the degree will be awarded by the respective university.

Following is the list of universities granted graded autonomy:

CENTRAL UNIVERSITIES

University — NAAC Score — Category

1. Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi — 3.77 — I
2. University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad — 3.72 — I
3. Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi — 3.41 — II
4. Aligarh Muslim University , Aligarh — 3.35 — II
5. The English and Foreign Languages University, Telengana — 3.26 — II

STATE UNIVERSITIES

University — NAAC Score — Category

1. Jadavpur University, Jadavpur, Kolkata — 3.68 — I
2. Algappa University, Karaikudi — 3.64 — I
3. NALSAR University of Law, Telangana — 3.60 — I
4. SavitribaiPhule Pune University, Pune — 3.60 — I
5. Andhra University, Visakhapatnam — 3.60 — I
6. National Law University Delhi, Dwarka — 3.59 — I
7. Utkal University, Bhubaneswar — 3.53 — I
8. Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra — 3.52 — I
9. Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati — 3.52 — I
10. Osmania University, Hyderabad — 3.52 — I
11. Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar — 3.51 — I
12. University of Jammu, Jammu — 3.51 — I
13. University of Mysore, Mysuru — 3.47 — II
14. Anna University, Chennai — 3.46 — II
15. Punjab University, Chandigarh — 3.35 — II
16. Kakatiya University, Warangal — 3.35 — II
17. Punjabi University, Patiala — 3.34 — II
18. Rajiv Gandhi University of Law, Patiala — 3.32 — II
19. National Law University Odisha, Cuttack — 3.32 — II
20. University of Madras, Chennai — 3.32 — II
21. Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar — 3.28 — II

|GlobalGiants.Com|

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