Report of the Working Group on Higher Education for the XII Five Year Plan

Abstract

The Planning Commission has constituted a Working Group on Higher Education for the formulation of the XII Plan. The Notification is at Appendix- IA. The Working Group on Higher Education has met thrice and on the basis of the deliberations, this Working Report has been finalized. The Working Group on Higher Education was sub-divided into three sub-groups: Access, Equity and Quality (Appendix 3A). These Sub-groups have made specific proposals on the three focus themes, which have been consolidated by the UGC and have been appended with this Report. A separate Sub-Committee on Social Science Research and on the three Councils of ICSSR, ICHR & ICPR has been constituted by the Department of Higher Education and their Report is also included at Appendix 4.