This document provides an overview of the Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) program in India. RUSA aims to reform and improve access, equity, and quality of higher education across India. It provides funding to state universities and colleges based on certain criteria to support infrastructure development, address faculty shortages, and promote research. The objectives of RUSA include ensuring transformative reforms, improving governance, expanding access, improving equity, and addressing regional imbalances in higher education.

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2. MEMBERS
 SABIN MARIAM SABU
 SHIJINI JOSE
 SHYNO MARY GEORGE
 STEFFY SUSAN THOMAS
 TREESHMA TITUS
 VINITHA V

4.  A newly adopted educational policy for
improvement of Higher Education in India
because quality of higher education is a major
concern today.
 Started in 8th June, 2013 by Ministry of Human
Resource Development (MHRD), Government
of India.
 MHRD is the nodal agency administering RUSA.
 Higher education is considered as a long term
social investment for economic growth, cultural
development, equity etc.

5. AIM
 Reforming higher education system in India in
terms of improving quality, access and equity.
 Provides funding to higher educational institutions
throughout the country and is based on certain
criteria’s and norms
 A total of 316 State Public Universities and
13,024 colleges will be covered under it.
 Provides fund for infrastructure development of
the institution.
 Up gradation of existing institutions, creating new
institutions and resolving faculty shortage.

6. OBJECTIVES
 Usher transformative reforms in the state higher
education system by creating a facilitative
institutional structure for planning and monitoring
at the state level, promoting autonomy in state
universities and improving governance in
institutions.
 Ensure reforms in the affiliation, academic and
examination systems.
 Ensure adequate availability of quality faculty in
all higher educational institutions and promote
capacity building at all levels of employment.

7.  Enable conversion of some of the universities
into research universities at par with the best in
the world.
 Create an enabling atmosphere in the higher
educational institutions to devote themselves
to research and innovations.
 Improve the overall quality of state institutions
by ensuring conformity to prescribed norms
and standards and adopt accreditation as a
mandatory quality assurance framework.

8.  Expand the institutional base by creating
additional capacity in existing institutions, in
order to achieve enrolment targets.
 Create opportunities for states to undertake
reforms in the affiliation system in order to ensure
that the reforms and resource requirements of
affiliated colleges are adequately met.
 Improve equity in higher education by providing
adequate opportunities of higher education to
SC/STs and socially and educationally backward
classes; promote inclusion of women, minorities,
and differently abled persons.

9.  Correct regional imbalances in access to higher
education by facilitating access to high quality
institutions in urban and semi urban areas,
creating opportunities for students from rural
areas to get access to better quality institutions
and setting up institutions in un served and
underserved areas.

10. GUIDING PRINCIPLES
• FOCUS ON QUALITY AND RESEARCH
The aim is to achieve mass access to higher
education with high quality standards. It focuses on
better quality of state higher education institutions.
They will be encouraged to promote research and
innovations in their institutions.
 NORM BASED AND OUTCOME
DEPENDENT FUNDING
Future grants are outcome dependent.
Funding according to the performance of a state and
its institutions

11. • EQUITY BASED DEVELOPMENT
Growth in higher education create equal
opportunities for women, disadvantaged classes and
the differently abled.
Focuses on serving the rural and tribal areas.
• INCENTIVIZING AND DISINCENTIVIZING
RUSA incentivizes and disincentives state actions.
Fulfillment of norms supported by incentives.
Non-fulfilment of norms invites reduced allocations
for states and institutions.
Makes the scheme competitive.

12. • APOLITICAL DECISION MAKING
Transparent, unbiased and impartial.
On the basis of SHEPs and performance of the
states on the predefined parameters.
• AUTONOMY
Autonomy for institutions in terms of decision
making

13. MAJOR IMPACTS AND TARGETS
 Promote a spirit of healthy competition amongst
states and institutions to excel in quality higher
education, research and innovation.
 To identify and fill up the existing gaps in higher
education by augmenting and supporting the State
Government’s efforts.
 Improving access, equity and accessibility of
higher education in states through reforms
governance reforms, affliation reforms etc…

14.  Improve equity in higher education by
providing adequate opportunities of higher
education to socially deprived communities;
promote inclusion of women, minorities,
SC/ST/OBCs and differently abled persons.
 It also seeks to increase the spending on higher
education by the State Governments.

15. Components
Creation of Universities by Up-Gradation of
Existing Autonomous Colleges.
Creation of Universities by Conversion of
Colleges in a Cluster.
 Infrastructure grants to Universities.
New Model Degree Colleges.
Up-Gradation of existing degree colleges to
Model Degree Colleges.
 New Colleges (Professional)

16.  Infrastructure grants to Colleges.
 Research Innovation and Quality Improvement.
 Equity initiative.
 Faculty Recruitment Support.
 Faculty Improvement.
 Vocationalisation of Higher Education.
 Leadership development of Educational
Administrators.
 Institutional Restructuring and Reforms.

17. REFERENCES
• Ministry of Human Resource
Development(2013).’Rashtriya Uchatar
Shiksha Abhiyan’.
• https://mhrd.gov.in/rusa
• http://vikaspedia.in/education/policies-
andschemes/rashtriya-uchchatar-shiksha-
abhiyan