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RASHTRIYA UCHCHATAR SHIKSHA ABHIYAN (RUSA)
Union Education Minister chairs a review meeting on RashtriyaUcchatar Shiksha Abhiyan.
The RashtriyaUchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA):
- It is a centrally sponsored scheme launched in 2013.
- It aims to provide strategic funding to eligible state higher educational institutions.
- The central funding (in the ratio of 60:40 for general category states, 90:10 for special category states and 100% for union territories) is based on norms and is outcome dependent.
- Funds flow from the central ministry through the state governments/union territories to the State Higher Education Councils before reaching the identified institutions.
- Funding to states would be made on the basis of the critical appraisal of State Higher Education Plans, which would enlist each state’s strategy to address issues of equity, access and excellence in higher education.
- It is a scheme under the Ministry of Education (formerly HRD).
Objectives of RUSA:
- Improve the overall quality of state institutions.
- Usher transformative reforms in the state higher education sector.
- Ensure reforms in the affiliation, academic and examination systems.
- Ensure adequate availability of quality faculty in all higher educational institutions and promote capacity building at all levels of employment.
- Promote research and development in higher educational institutions.
- Enable higher enrolment.
- Correct the regional imbalances in access to higher education.
- Provide adequate opportunities of higher education to SC/ST and other backward groups.
SOURCE:PIB
