Union Minister of State for Schooling Sukanta Majumdar shared the data in a written reply to a query.
“The Nationwide Schooling Coverage (NEP) 2020 envisions a ‘gentle however tight' regulatory framework to make sure integrity, transparency and useful resource effectivity of the academic system by way of audit and public disclosure whereas encouraging innovation and out-of-the-box concepts by way of autonomy, good governance and empowerment,” Majumdar mentioned.
“The NEP 2020 additional envisions establishing of a Larger Schooling Fee of India (HECI) as an umbrella physique with impartial verticals to carry out distinct capabilities of regulation, accreditation, funding and tutorial normal setting.
Contemplating the above imaginative and prescient of NEP 2020, the ministry is within the strategy of drafting a HECI invoice,” he added.
The HECI, which was proposed within the new NEP, seems to be to exchange the College Grants Fee (UGC), the All India Council for Technical Schooling (AICTE) and the Nationwide Council for Trainer Schooling (NCTE).Whereas the UGC oversees non-technical greater schooling, the AICTE oversees technical schooling and the NCTE is the regulatory physique for academics' schooling.The idea of the HECI has been mentioned earlier than within the type of a draft invoice.
A draft Larger Schooling Fee of India (Repeal of College Grants Fee Act) Invoice, 2018, which seeks to repeal the UGC Act and gives for establishing of the Larger Schooling Fee of India, was put within the public area that yr for suggestions and session with stakeholders.
Renewed efforts to make the HECI a actuality had been then initiated underneath Dharmendra Pradhan, who took over as Union schooling minister in July 2021.
Underlining the relevance of a single greater schooling regulator, the NEP 2020 doc says, “the regulatory system is in want of an entire overhaul with a purpose to re-energise the upper schooling sector and allow it to thrive”.
