Prakash Javadekar
launches Portal and Mobile App of RUSA
Improvement of Quality is the Thurst for all our Efforts in the Educational Fields - Prakash Javadekar
Improvement of Quality is the Thurst for all our Efforts in the Educational Fields - Prakash Javadekar
Union Minister of Human Resource
Development Shri Prakash Javadekar today launched the unique portal and mobile
app of Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA), a body under the aegis of
the Ministry of Human Resource Development here in New Delhi.
Speaking
on the occasion Shri Javadekar said “Our Government’s first priority is to
improve the quality of primary as well as higher education. Unless we improve
the quality of education we will not be able to create capable people and good
citizen and therefore improvement of quality is the thrust for all our efforts
in the educational fields. Today this is a unique event as well as experiment
wherein we have inaugurated 17 facilities created under Rashtriya Ucchatat
Shiksha Abiyan (RUSA) in one go in 14 states”. He said that Centre and State
Government will be deliberating and discussing upon the modalities for bringing
improvement further. Under the concept of RUSA the quality of education can go
up by improving the research labs infrastructure and creating smart class rooms
and various other programmes by which the quality enhancement and value
addition to the students happen, Shri Javadekar added. The Minister said ‘RUSA
is a success and during the last three years Modi Government has increased the
expenditure to the tune of Rs. 2800 crore for this. He said we have created
infrastructure in many universities, colleges and model colleges. We have also
provided Rs. 1300 crore in this year’s budget. Since this is happening for the
first time, we are very hopeful and excited and I am sure this scheme will be a
great success towards enhancement of higher education’ he added.
The portal is a one-stop for States’
Higher Education Plans, decision of the States’ Higher Education Councils and
details of the resources under this scheme. Also, the gallery is a rich
repository of the projects initiated under RUSA.
Shri Javadekar also released the Booklet
“Digital Launch of Projects; Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA)” on
this occasion.
Various State Education Ministers,
Secretaries, RUSA Nodal officers from many states were also present during the
programme.
The
RUSA projects that were launched today are as under:
Up-gradation of Existing degree colleges
to Model Degree Colleges: Academic (Commerce) Block in Dera Natung Government
College, Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh); Infrastructure Grants to the University:
Computer Lab at Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak (Haryana); New Colleges
(Professional): Rajiv Gandhi Government Engineering College, Kangra (Himachal Pradesh);
Creation of Cluster Universities in Jammu and Srinagar (District), Jammu and
Kashmir ( J&K ); Equity Initiatives: Digital Language Laboratory in
Ghatsila College, Ghatsila, Kolhan University (Jharkhand); Infrastructure
Grants to Universities: Solar Panelling System in Sree Sankaracharya University
of Sanskrit, Kalady, Ernakulam (Kerala); Infrastructure Grants to University:
Academic Block, Government Rani Durgawati College, Mandla (Madhya Pradesh);
Research, Innovation and Quality Improvement in Shivaji University, Kolhapur
& Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune (Maharashtra); Infrastructure
Grants to Colleges: Renovation of IT/Bioinformatics Centre, Laboratories in
Biotechnology, Food Technology, Chemistry, Biological Science, Home Science
and Geology in S. Kula Women’s College, Kongkhampat, Nambol (Manipur);
Infrastructure Grants to Colleges: New building for M.Ed. Classrooms, Institute
of Advanced Study in Education, Republic Veng, Aizwal (Mizoram); Infrastructure
Grants to University: Smart Classrooms and Moot Court Room, Mohan Lal Sukhadia
University, Udaipur (Rajasthan); Preparatory Grants: Management Information
Systems (MIS) in all Government College of Sikkim; Infrastructure Grants to
Universities: Women Hostel at Bharathiar University, Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu);
New Model Degree College (MDC) at Kalwakurthy, Nagarkurnool (District),
Telangana and Infrastructure Grants to University: Yogic Science Laboratory in
Uttarakhand Sanskrit University, Haridwar (Uttarakhand).
Shri Javadekar also launched on this
occasion the Fund and Reform Tracker for this centrally sponsored scheme. The
mobile application will ensure that all projects under RUSA are tracked 24x7.
RUSA is the Centrally Sponsored Scheme
(CSS) of the Department of Higher Education, MHRD which aims to provide
strategic central funding to State Higher Education Departments and
Institutions and achieve the broad objectives of access, equity and excellence.
The State Higher Education Departments and Institutions undertake certain
governance, academic and administrative reforms as a pre-requisite to be
entitled for RUSA grants. The implementation of RUSA in its right earnest began
after May 2014.
Earlier
in his welcome address Shri Kewal Kumar Sharma, Secretary Higher Education
expressed the hope that proper and timely implementation of project will usher
in transformative Reforms in State Education system.
Source | www.pib.nic.in
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