New Delhi: The government is not considering any merger of the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) into a single higher education regulator at present, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Thursday.
"No such proposal is under consideration at present, to merge the UGC and the AICTE into a single higher education regulator," minister of state for HRD Mahenrda Nath Pandey said in a written response in the Rajya Sabha.
However, HRD ministry officials had earlier claimed that the government was mulling introducing Higher Education Empowerment Regulation Agency (HEERA) to replace the UGC and the AICTE with an aim of eliminating overlaps in the jurisdiction and remove irrelevant regulatory provisions.
The HRD minister said in the response that the idea of establishing a single regulator for higher education is not new and various committees on higher education have earlier recommended a single body.
"While the National Knowledge Commission (2006) recommended an independent regulatory authority for higher education, the Committee on Renovation and Rejuvenation of Higher Education (2009) advocated an apex regulatory body by converging multiple regulatory agencies in the field of higher education.
"The UGC Review Committee in 2014 had also recommended that the commission should be replaced by an apex institution titled National Higher Education Authority," Pandey said.
Source: Live Mint
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