{"id":37149,"date":"2025-02-11T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/?p=37149"},"modified":"2025-08-13T16:36:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T11:06:59","slug":"niti-aayog-policy-report-spus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/11-02-2025\/niti-aayog-policy-report-spus","title":{"rendered":"NITI Aayog Releases Policy Report on State Public Universities (SPUs)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS2\/Education<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Context<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>NITI Aayog launched a policy report titled <strong>\u2018Expanding Quality Higher Education through States and State Public Universities\u2019.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>About<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The report is a first-of-its kind policy document in the higher education sector focused specifically on <strong>States and State Public Universities (SPUs).<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>St<\/strong><strong>ate Public University (SPU) <\/strong>is<strong> <\/strong>a university established or incorporated by a Provincial Act or by a State Act can be termed a State (Public) University. <strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It provides detailed quantitative analysis on vital indicators of Quality, Funding and Financing, Governance and Employability over the last decade across the themes.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Key Findings of Report<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Highest Funding: <\/strong>Maharashtra leads in higher education funding, followed by Bihar and Tamil Nadu.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Lowest Funding:<\/strong> Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, and Nagaland have the lowest higher education budgets.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>University Density:<\/strong> The national average university density is 0.8.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Sikkim has the highest density of 10.3, followed by Arunachal Pradesh, Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Uttarakhand.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Maharashtra, density at the state level is below the national average.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Female Enrolment:<\/strong> Kerala, Chhattisgarh and Himachal Pradesh have higher female enrolment rates than males.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Challenges<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dearth of good quality infrastructure.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shortage of faculty and staff.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Insufficient expenditure on R&amp;D.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There is a<strong> low enrolment of students at the MTech and Ph.D. levels,<\/strong> presenting a significant challenge in fostering advanced research and academic growth.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Courses, syllabus, curriculum not being industry-ready.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Issues in funding: <\/strong>They face financial challenges due to dependency on traditional revenue sources such as admission fees and state grants.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>There are administrative delays in fund sanctioning along with the lack of framework for bank loans as major challenges for funding and financing of SPUs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-dominant-color=\"cac8c7\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"478\" height=\"437\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2025\/02\/gross-enrolment-ratio.webp\" alt=\"gross-enrolment-ratio\" class=\"not-transparent wp-image-37150\" style=\"--dominant-color: #cac8c7; width:414px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2025\/02\/gross-enrolment-ratio.webp 478w, https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2025\/02\/gross-enrolment-ratio-300x274.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Recommendations<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It has presented nearly <strong>80 policy re<\/strong><strong>commendations<\/strong> to address various issues related to four areas of SPUs: quality of education; funding and financing; governance; and employability among students enrolled in them.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Increasing the combined investment<\/strong> of Centre and States on education to 6% of GDP as recommended in NEP 2020.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Increasing the R&amp;D Investment<\/strong> (public and private) to 2% of GDP as recommended in the Economic Survey 2017-18.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Clusters of SPUs<strong> should identify 2 to 3 local issues<\/strong> and establish Centres of Excellence dedicated to addressing these challenges.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>States may consider establishing a finance agency similar to the<strong> Higher Education Financing Agency (HEFA),<\/strong> dedicated specifically to SPUs.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>HEFA is a joint venture of the Centre and Canara Bank set up in 2017.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This agency should focus on bolstering infrastructure and research facilities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/education\/niti-aayog-report-seeks-more-public-funding-for-higher-education\/article69203943.ece#:~:text=The%20report%20found%20that%20there,risen%20significantly%2C%E2%80%9D%20it%20noted.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>TH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NITI Aayog launched a policy report titled \u2018Expanding Quality Higher Education through States and State Public Universities\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37174,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37149\/revisions\/37174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}