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Annual Report 2005-06 Executive Summary 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Executive Summary of the UGC Annual Report 2005-2006, encapsulates not only the activities of UGC to achieve its objectives but also physical targets achieved under its various tenth plan schemes/programmes and the expenditure entailed on the same besides the statistical growth in the higher education sector. 1. ROLE AND ORGANIZATION OF THE UGC ● The University Grants Commission (UGC) came into existence on 28th December, 1953 and became a statutory organization established by an Act of Parliament in 1956, for the coordination, determination and maintenance of standards of university education. An amendment to the UGC Act is under consideration of the Government of India to meet emerging challenges. ● The Commission consists of the Chairperson, Vice-Chairperson and ten members (Secretary-Education, Secretary-Expenditure, 8 other members) appointed/nominated by the Government of India. The Secretary headed the Commission’s Secretariat with 599 working staff including 68 Group ‘A’ officers. Out of working staff strength, 31.22% are women, 26.21% are Scheduled Caste and 4.84% Scheduled Tribe employees. ● The UGC has decentralized its functions by opening seven Regional offices in the country since 1994, in a phased manner for easy access and speedy release of grants and implementation of various schemes/programmes relating to college sector. During 2005-06, these Regional Offices have been dealing with nine schemes/ programmes. ● The general objective of the Tenth Plan ( 2002-2007) of UGC is to achieve a profound transformation of higher education so that it effectively promotes sustainable human development and, at the same time, improves relevance with closer links with the world of work and ensures quality in its teaching, research and business and community extension functions including life-long learning. ● The Malpractices Cell which deals with the menace of existence and mushrooming of Fake Universities has been taking action against 20 still existing fake universities as on 31st March, 2006. ● The UGC had been impleaded in as many as 340 cases filed in various courts of India during 2005-06 and an expenditure of Rs.22.06 lakhs had been incurred on the bills of advocates. ● The Vigilance Cell of UGC has got one Deputy Secretary suspended and action is being taken as per the findings submitted by the one man inquiry committee. ● The Desk-Parliament has received as many as 491 Parliament Questions during 2005-06. Out of which, 26 questions have been under assurance and the rest have been disposed. ● The Budget and receipt of Grant-in-Aid for the financial year 2005-06 had been to the extent indicated below: Budget for the year 2005-2006 and Grants received (Rs. in Crores ) S.No. Budget head Plan allocation Non-Plan allocation BE RE BE RE 1. General 785.40 786.30 1218.35 1389.61 Total 785.40 786.30 1218.35 1389.61 ● Out of the total Non-Plan grant released during 2005-06, 63.32% released to Central Universities, 22.68% to colleges of Delhi and Banaras Hindu Universities, 5.98% to Deemed to be Universities and 0.65% to State Universities. The expenditure on the UGC establishment had been to the extent of Rs.26.16 crores constituting 1.88% of the total Non-Plan grant. 2 Annual Report 2005-2006 ● Out of the plan grant released during 2005-06, 27.54% had gone to Central Universities, 3.63% to Deemed Universities and 26.46% to colleges of state universities. ● As directed by the MHRD, a Joint Cadre Review Committee was constituted by the UGC in 2003 to evolve a uniform cadre structure and rationalization of pay scales, duties, qualifications of the posts of non-teaching staff (Central and UGC maintained Deemed universities only) who are not covered under the Pay Review Committee for teaching staff. The work is in progress. ● The UGC has taken the following new initiatives during X Plan period. ● Promotion of Entrepreneurship and knowledge based enterprises. ● Protection of Intellectual property Rights (IPRs) ● Promotion of Indian Higher Education Abroad (PIHEAD) ● Training and Development of Academic Administrators ● Introduction of e-governance in UGC etc. ● To create and promote new work culture and to enhance efficiency and bring transparency in working, the UGC has undertaken a comprehensive computerization and introduction of e-governance in UGC. The website of UGC viz. http://ugc.ac.in has been made content rich, interactive site and it covers almost all activities and programmes of UGC. ● Upto 31st March, 2006, the Commission has specified as many as 138 degrees by notifications from time to time as per the provisions contained in Section 22 of the UGC Act. ● The UGC specified two more degrees viz. MHMS( Master of Homeopathic Medicine & Science) and B.Nat. (Yogic Science) during 2005-06, raising the total number of specified degrees to 138. ● The highlights of the year and decisions, approvals & resolutions of the Commission have been indicated in Chapter-I. 2. STATISTICAL GROWTH OF INSTITUTIONS, ENROLMENT, FACULTY AND RESEARCH ● As on 31.03.2006, 355 universities including 20 Central, 216 State, 101 Deemed Universities, 5 Institutions established under State Legislation, 13 Institutes of National Importance and 18,064 colleges have existed in the Higher Education sector. Out of 216 State Universities, 60 State Universities and 2 institutions out of 5 institutions established through state legislation have not yet been declared eligible to receive central assistance under Section 12 (B) of the UGC Act, 1956 amended from time to time. ● During the reporting year 2005-2006, six new State Universities have been recognized under Section 2(f), of the UGC Act and seven institutions which were notified as Deemed to be Universities by the Govt. of India under Section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956 have also been included in the list of the UGC recognized Universities. Also, one Deemed University has been converted into a state university, two state universities have been converted into central universities and the names of two state universities have been changed. ● As many as 439 new colleges have been established in various states during 2005-2006. ● At the end of the financial year 2005-2006, the total number of colleges recognized under Section 2(f) of the UGC Act, 1956 had been 6109. Out of these, 584 colleges are not eligible to receive central assistance under Section 12 (B) of the UGC Act, 1956. ● During the academic session 2005-2006, the total enrolment in all courses and levels in regular stream had been 110.28 lakhs including 44.66 lakh women students constituting 40.50%. The maximum number of women students enrolled in the state of Maharashtra. Executive Summary 3 ● The student enrolment at various levels has been as given below: Level UG PG Dip./Cert. Research Percentage of total enrolment 88.91 9.42 1.03 0.64 ● About 90.30% of all the under-graduate students and 66.58% of all post-graduate students have been in the affiliated colleges while the remaining in university departments and their constituent colleges. Out of the total research students, 90.73% have been in the universities. ● Maharashtra State had been on the top having an enrolment of 15.07 lakhs students followed by U.P. with 14.33 lakhs and Sikkim had the lowest enrolment of 4940. In terms of percentages, as compared to total enrolment, the women enrolment had been the highest in the state of Kerala with 61.00%, followed by Goa with 59.20% and the lowest percentage of 24.52% in the state of Bihar. ● Out of the total enrolment of students (110.28 lakhs), 45.13% students have been in the faculty of Arts, followed by Science 20.45% and Commerce 18%, thus constituting 83.59% enrolment in just three faculties. While the remaining 16.41% enrolment has been in professional faculties. ● The strength of the teaching faculty in universities and colleges had gone up to 4.88 lakhs as compared to 4.72 lakhs teachers in the previous year. ● The number of research degrees (Ph.D.) awarded during 2004-2005 was 17,898. Out of this, the Faculty of Arts had the highest number with 7532 Degrees, followed by the Faculty of Science with 5549 Degrees. These two faculties together accounted for 73.09% of the total number of research degrees awarded by various universities. ● The number of women students enrolled per hundred men students enrolled at all levels has been 68 in the reporting year. ● The women enrolment had been the highest in the faculty of Arts (51.01%), followed by Science (20.18%) and Commerce (16.46%), constituting 87.65% in the three faculties. While the remaining 12.35% in all the professional faculties. 3. MAINTENANCE (NON-PLAN) AND DEVELOPMENT (PLAN) GRANTS TO UNIVERSITIES ● There are 20 Central Universities, out of which 18 are receiving maintenance as well as development grants. The remaining two universities namely, Indira Gandhi National Open University and Central Agricultural University are directly funded by the Ministry of Human Resource Development and Ministry of Agriculture respectively. ● Non-plan grant amounting to Rs.878.65 crores has been released to meet the maintenance expenditure of 18 Central Universities and plan grant of Rs.222.73 crores has been released to 18 Central Universities during 2005-06. ● As on 31st March, 2006 there have been 216 State Universities set up under laws enacted by the legislatures of various states. But the UGC has been making budgetary allocation of Plan (Development) Grants to only 119 state universities, excluding agricultural and medical universities. During the year 2005-2006, 119 eligible state universities have been provided development grants amounting to Rs. 266.89 Crores. ● An amount of Rs.95.00 lakhs has been paid to five state universities under the scheme of Jubilee Grants during 2005-2006.
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