An Analytical Study on Role of Government in Accelerating Higher Education in India

The role of government is of visionary, and to make more objective based actions rather than the subjective actions and plans. India which is the 7th largest and 2nd most populated country with over 1.25 billion people there are 22 million graduates passing every year and 250, 000 students taking higher education overseas annually. The country needs more conducive and congenial environment to breed neo working force, with the high technical skills & the standards. The key problems confronting higher education in India are quality, equity, access and financing. In the last 10 years, there has been a massive ad hoc expansion of Central Universities, IITs and Indian Institutes of Management resulting in a shortage of faculty by 40 to 50 percent. Also the mushrooming of the pvt. Universities. Now the role of government has become more participatory and decision oriented to meet out the requirement of the innovative and existing world. In the present study, an attempt has been made to examine the various issues concerning the role of government of India in Education sector. We wish to study the role of the GOVERNMENT in Higher education, with changing environment focusing on the universitys position in the newly emerging knowledge infrastructure.