Photo: HTNew Delhi: The government’s plan to replace the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) with a single higher education regulator seems to have hit a roadblock with the HRD ministry putting the idea on hold. The plan to introduce Higher Education Empowerment Regulation Agency or HEERA with an aim to eliminate overlaps in jurisdiction and remove irrelevant regulatory provisions is in limbo. “No such proposal is under consideration at present, to merge the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) into a single higher education regulator,” Kushwaha had informed the Rajya Sabha. The idea to have a single higher education regulator is not a new one, but has been recommended by various committees set up by previous governments. The UGC Review Committee in 2014 had also recommended the commission be replaced with an apex institution named National Higher Education Authority.

Source: Mint August 13, 2017 09:11 UTC