rusa.nic.in RUSA Mobile App : Ministry of Human Resource Development

Organisation : Ministry of Human Resource Development
Facility : RUSA Mobile App
Website : http://rusa.nic.in/

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The key objectives of RUSA are to improve access, equity and quality in higher education through planned development of higher education at the state level.

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Objectives include creating new academic institutions, expanding and upgrading the existing ones, developing institutions that are self-reliant in terms of quality education, professionally managed, and characterized by greater inclination towards research and provide students with education that is relevant to them as well the nation as a whole.

The salient objectives of RUSA are :
** Improve the overall quality of state institutions by ensuring conformity to prescribed norms and standards and adopt accreditation as a mandatory quality assurance framework

** Usher transformative reforms in the state higher education system by creating a facilitative institutional structure for planning and monitoring at the state level, promoting autonomy in State Universities and improving governance in institutions

** 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

** Create an enabling atmosphere in the higher educational institutions to promote research and innovation
** Expand institutional base by creating additional capacity in existing institutions and establish new institutions, to achieve higher enrollment

** Correct the regional imbalances in terms of access to higher education by setting up institutions in un-served and underserved areas of the country

** Improve equity in higher education by providing adequate opportunities of higher education to SC/STs and socially and educationally backward classes; promote inclusion of women, minorities, and differently abled persons

Components :
The overarching commitment of the RUSA is the consolidation of the universities and their component colleges. RUSA aims to create new universities through upgradation of existing autonomous colleges and by conversion of colleges to a cluster.

It will create new model degree colleges, new professional colleges and provide infrastructural support to universities and colleges. Faculty recruitment support, faculty improvements programmes and leadership development of educational administrators is also an important part of the scheme.

In order to enhance skill development the existing central scheme of Polytechnics has been subsumed within RUSA.

A separate component to synergise vocational education with higher education has also been included in RUSA. Besides these, RUSA also supports reforming, restructuring and building capacity of institutions in participating states.

The following are the primary components of RUSA that capture the key action and funding areas that must be pursued for the fulfillment of the targets :

** Upgradation of existing autonomous colleges to Universities
** Conversion of colleges to Cluster Universities
** Infrastructure grants to Universities

** New Model Colleges (General)
** Upgradation of existing degree colleges to model colleges
** New Colleges (Professional

** Infrastructure grants to colleges
** Research, innovation and quality improvement
** Faculty improvements

** Vocationalisation of Higher Education
** Leadership Development of Educational Administrators
** Institutional restructuring & reforms

** Capacity building & preparation, data collection & planning
** Equity Initiatives
** Faculty Recruitment Support