Team Herald
PORVORIM: Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar introduced the The Goa State Higher Education Council Bill, 2018 in the Assembly on Thursday. The bill paves way for setting up of Goa State Higher Education Council in the State.
The Statement of Objects and Reasons of the Bill states “The Ministry of Human Resource Development University Grants Commission and Rashtriya Uchtatar Shiksha Abhiyan, 2013 have recommended that the State level planning and co-ordination of higher education, including university education, shall be done through an independent autonomous council for higher education.”
It further reads, “Accordingly in order to bring out better excellence, inconclusiveness and accessibility in the higher education sector, the State government has decided to constitute the State Level Higher Education Council to be known as Goa State Higher Education Council,” it reads further.
“The council shall function in order to forge synergic relationship amongst the State government, Universities, academics and experts by occupying an operational space between the government and universities open on one hand and between universities and apex level regulatory institutions on the other,” it says.
The main objects of the Council includes planned and co-ordinated development of higher education in the state, prompting obtaining academic input for policy formulation and perspective planning, ensuring autonomy, accountability and co-ordination of all institutions of higher education in the State and guiding the growth of higher education in accordance with the socio economic requirements of the State.
