The Haryana Government has signed an MoU with OP Jindal Global University (JGU) to draft the State Higher Educational Plan under the Rashtriya Uchchtar Shiksha Abhiyaan (RUSA).
The International Institute for Higher Education, Research and Capacity Building (IIHEd), a research institute that focuses on higher education at JGU, will undertake this project. The State Higher Education Plan to be drawn up will cover a period of next ten years. The plan will contain physical targets, opportunities and proposals for promoting access, equity and excellence in higher education.
The Education Minister of Haryana, Ram Bilas Sharma, who was present during the MoU signing emphasized that education is not mere transmission of information and turning students into robots but instead, it ought to transform the student into an awakened and enlightened citizen.
Sharma pointed out, the objective of the drawing up the plan was to overcome serious challenges in the field of higher education like employability, access and quality.
The Additional Chief Secretary, Department of Higher Education, Vijai Vardhan and Vice Chancellor of the O.P. Jindal Global University, Raj Kumar signed the MoU at Chandigarh on Sunday.
Vardhan informed, three workshops will be organised with Vice Chancellors, Registrars, eminent academics, NGOs, media and other stakeholders over next three months.
The plan will be drafted through a consultative, participatory and collective exercise, added Raj Kumar.
Kumar observed that Haryana has a great opportunity to contribute to the cause of higher education. The future of Haryana and to a larger extent India will depend on the ability to harness the demographic dividend and the responsibility to educate the youth.