Objectives

• To improve the overall quality of existing higher education institutes.
• To upgrade high potential existing colleges into Universities or Model Degree Colleges.
• To identify and fill critical infrastructural gaps in higher education.
• To ensure adequate availability of quality faculty.
• Facilitate research & innovation in the State /higher Education institutions.
• Improve equity in higher education by providing adequate opportunities of higher education to backward classes and women.
• To improve the status of Gross Enrolment Ratio.
• To correct the regional imbalance

Principles

• Quality & Research Focus
• Norm based & Outcome dependent funding
• Demand Driven & Competitive
• Apolitical decision- making
• Autonomy in decision making