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Rashtriya Uchchatar Siksha Abbhiyan (Rusa)

RUSA is a scheme launched in 2013 by MHRD to improve higher education in India. It aims to increase GER from 18% to 30% and provide strategic funding to universities. RUSA's objectives include improving quality, ensuring adequate faculty, and promoting equity and inclusion. It supports upgrading colleges to universities, model degree colleges, infrastructure grants, and establishing new professional colleges. Since launching, GER has risen to 25.2%, faculty vacancies have reduced, and reforms have occurred in several state universities.

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Rashtriya Uchchatar Siksha Abbhiyan (Rusa)

RUSA is a scheme launched in 2013 by MHRD to improve higher education in India. It aims to increase GER from 18% to 30% and provide strategic funding to universities. RUSA's objectives include improving quality, ensuring adequate faculty, and promoting equity and inclusion. It supports upgrading colleges to universities, model degree colleges, infrastructure grants, and establishing new professional colleges. Since launching, GER has risen to 25.2%, faculty vacancies have reduced, and reforms have occurred in several state universities.

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A SEMINAR ON

RASHTRIYA UCHCHATAR SIKSHA ABHIYAN (RUSA)


SCHOLAR
PRADEEP KUMAR BARAL
M.PHIL (EDUCATION)
ROLL NO-04

RADHANATH INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDIES EDUCATION


CUTTACK
2019
INTRODUCTION
 RUSA is a holistic scheme of development for Higher Education
in India.
 It was initiated in Oct.3, 2013 by the Ministry of Human
Resource Development (MHRD), Govt. of India.
 It aims at providing strategic funding to Higher Education
institutions. To increase the Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) from
18% to 30%. In 2016-17 it was 25.2%.
 The total cost of RUSA will cover 12th (2012-17) and 13th
(2017-22) Five Year Plan period will be 98,134 Cr rupees.
 Cabinet approves Centrally Sponsored Scheme of RUSA-
NHEM from 01.04.2017 to 30.3.2020.
 It creates more universities, institutions for professional
development.
OBJECTIVES OF RUSA
 To improve the overall quality of existing state institutions by
prescribed norms and standards.
 To adopt accreditation as a mandatory for quality assurance
framework.
 To ensure adequate availability of quality faculty in all higher
educational institutions.
 To ensure examination and academic reforms in higher
education,
 To promote autonomy in state universities and improve
governance in institutions.
 To improve equity in higher education by providing adequate
opportunities to SC,ST,SEBC: women,minority and differently
abled persons.
COMPONENTS OF RUSA
 Upgradation of existing autonomous colleges to universities.
 Upgradation of existing colleges to model degree colleges.
 Conversion of colleges into cluster universities.
 Infrastructure grants to universities.
 Establishing new professional colleges.
 Research, innovation and quality improvement.
 Vocationalisation of higher education.
 Equity initiatives.
 Leadership development of educational administrators.
 Faculty recruitment system.
 Institutional restructuring and reforms.
GUIDING PRINCIPLES
 Focus on Quality and Research.
 Norm-based and Outcome- dependent Funding.
 Incentivizing and Dis-incentivizing.
 Apolitical Decision Making.
 Autonomy.
 Disclosure- based Governance.
 Equity- based Development.
IMPACTS AND TARGETS
 RUSA seeks to increase the GER of the country to 30% by
2020.
 It also seeks to increase the spending on Higher Education by
the state govt.
 The scheme, in its 2nd phase
• Infrastructural facilities60 model degree colleges, 8 professional
colleges, 70 autonomous colleges and 60 universities.
• Enhancing quality and excellence in 10 selected State
Universities.
 To identify and fill up the existing gaps in Higher Education.
 Promote a spirit of healthy competition amongst states and
institutions to excel in quality of Higher Education in India.
CHANGES AFTER RUSA’S IMPLEMENTATION
 When RUSA began the GER was 19.4%, faculty vacancies was
60% and a large number of universities were suffered with
teacher student ratio of 1:24.
 At present GER is 25.2%, faculty vacancies was reduced to
35% and teacher student ratio was 1:20.
 An independent performance reviewed of the scheme was
done by IIT, Bombay in 2017.
 Several universities in- Karnataka, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh
and Bihar have been made critical reforms by the government.
 Merit based appointment of Vice-Chancellors in Odisha, Goa,
Jammu and Kashmir and Tamil Nadu are visible.
 By this scheme, improvement had seen in number of
institutions and their scores.

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