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Budget: Reforms will be undertaken in UGC

India Blooms News Service | | Feb 01, 2017, at 10:13 pm

New Delhi, Feb 1 (IBNS): Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Arun Jaitley while presenting the General Budget 2017-18 in Parliament today said that in higher education, the Government will undertake reforms in the UGC.

Good quality institutions would be enabled to have greater administrative and academic autonomy.

In his Budget Speech, the Finance Minister said that the colleges will be identified based on accreditation and ranking, and given autonomous status.

A revised framework will be put in place for outcome based accreditation and credit based programmes.

#ArunJaitley #FinanceMinister #UGC #UnionBudget #Budget2017

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