MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION AGENDA 3rd MEETING OF THE PROJECT APPROVAL BOARD 13th May 2014 New Delhi 0 | P a g e COMPOSITION OF PROJECT APPROVAL BOARD, RUSA 1. Secretary, Higher Education, MHRD - Chairperson 2. Chairperson, UGC - Co-Chairman 3. Chairperson, AICTE - Member 4. Secretary, UGC - Member 5. Chairperson, State Higher Education Council - Member (of the concerned State whose plans are to be considered) 6. Secretary, Higher Education of the State concerned - Member 7. Secretary, Technical Education of the State concerned - Member 8. Prof. Shailendra Mehta, Visiting Professor, IIM- Ahmedabad - Member 9. Prof. B Venkatesh Kumar, Professor, TISS - Member 10. Financial Advisor in MHRD - Member 11. Advisor (Higher Education), Planning Commission - Member 12. Joint Secretary (HE) & National Mission Director - Member – Convener 1 | P a g e AGENDA SL. No. ITEM PAGES 1. Action Taken on the Items of PAB dated 12th March, 2014 3 2. Fund Equalization formula 3 3. Appraisal of State Higher Education Plans 5 4. Revisiting the decision of PAB taken in its 1st & 2nd meetings held on 6th 6 November, 2013 and 12th March, 2014 regarding approval of 60 Model Degree Colleges at an financial out lay of Rs. 238.5 Crore for 12th Plan Period ANNEXURES SL. No. ANNEXURE PAGE 1. Status of Funds released by MHRD in the Financial Year 2013-14 6 2. Resource Envelope for States as per Fund Equalisation Formula 9 3. Appraisal Notes on State Higher Education Plans A) Gujarat B) Himachal Pradesh C) Jammu & Kashmir D) Manipur E) Nagaland F) Punjab 4. Status on Polytechnics 88 5. Extracts from the minutes of 1st meeting of PAB held on 6th November’13 93 6. Extracts from the minutes of 2nd meeting of PAB held on 12th March’14 96 2 | P a g e AGENDA AGENDA ITEM -1 ACTION TAKEN ON PAB DECISIONS OF 12TH MARCH, 2014 The second meeting of the Project Approval Board was held on 12th March 2014. Action taken on the PAB decisions is as follows: PAB Decisions Action Taken Post Facto approval of Preparatory Grants of Rs. 23.40 crore released as Preparatory Grants to Rs. 23.40 crores to 9 States 9 States Approval of 3 Model Degree Colleges in Tripura Rs. 15.02 Crore released as 1st instalment of Central Share for the 3 MDCs Approved 01 Model Degree College in Andaman The Ministry Released Rs.3.90 crore as 1st & Nicobar Islands instalment to A&N Islands for 1 MDC The total funds released by the Ministry to States/UTs and other institutions in the Financial Year 2013-14 are placed at Annexure I for information of the PAB. The Status of funds released and tentative allocation for 2014-15 under the sub-mission on Polytechnics is placed at Annexure IV. AGENDA ITEM-2 FUND EQUALIZATION FORMULA While developing a fund equalisation formula in order to determine the resource envelope of states, it was important that broad and common indicators of higher education trends and needs are adopted and appropriate marks (out of 100) assigned to them. Thus the indicators of population (18-23) - 40 marks; institutional density – 10 marks; state govt.’s expenditure on higher education as a % of GSDP – 10 marks; Gross enrolment Ratio (GER) – 10 marks and; special problems -10 marks have been used in the fund equalisation formula. The indicator ‘special problems’ refers to conditions such as hilly and difficult terrain, insurgency affected areas which may exist in some states which must be recognized and compensated. There would of course be an underlying base funding of 20 marks will be provided to all States as an equal 3 | P a g e amount. The marks have been assigned proportion to the relative importance of the six criteria. Table 1 refers. While base funding remains equal across states, in order to evaluate states on the criteria of Population, Institutional Density, Spend on Higher Education and GER the states were categorised into 4 clusters for each of these criteria. States with higher population, lower institutional density and greater spending on higher education and lower GER get more marks. Marks on special problems are assigned only to states with these attributes. Table 2 refers. Once marks have been given to states on these 6 criteria, a tentative allocation is arrived at for each state. The states are then evaluated on an Incentive -Disincentive Compatibility Framework to determine the final allocation to states based on (1) willingness, (2) adherence to timelines and (3) submission of SHEPs. Depending upon their performance on this framework, states are eligible to receive 100%, 66.7% or 33.3% of their tentative allocation as the final resource envelope for the year. Table 3 refers. The final resource envelope of states for the year 2014-15 is at Annexure 2. Table 1 Sl. No. Criteria Marks 1. Base Funding 20 2. Population (18-23) 40 3. Institutional Density 10 4. Spend on Higher Education (as a % of GSDP) 10 5. Need (Gross Enrolment Ratio) 10 6. Special problems 10 Total 100 Table 2 Criteria Cluster 1 Cluster 2 Cluster 3 Cluster 4 Population – 18 15 (lowest 20 30 40 (highest to 23 (40) population in population in cohort – lowest cohort - max allocation) allocation) Institutional 10 (lowest density 7.5 5 2.5 (highest density Density (10) – max allocation) – lowest allocation) 4 | P a g e Spend on 2.5 (lowest spend 5 7.5 10 (highest spend higher – lowest – max allocation) education (10) allocation) GER (10) 10 (lowest GER – 7.5 5 2.5 (highest GER – max allocation) lowest allocation) Table 3 Willingness On time SHEP Incentive/ Entitlement Submission Disincentive Yes/No Yes/No Yes/No 3 Yes 100% Yes/No Yes/No Yes/No 2 Yes 66.7% Yes/No Yes/No Yes/No 1 Yes 33.3% Yes/No Yes/No Yes/No 0 Yes 0% AGENDA ITEM-3 APPRAISAL OF STATE HIGHER EDUCATION PLANS The State Governments of Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Manipur, Nagaland, Punjab, Haryana and Uttarakhand have submitted their State Higher Education Plans (SHEP) till date. The TSG has appraised all the plans and two States (Uttarakhand & Haryana) have been asked to resubmit their plans to the Ministry as they have been found to be incomplete and the DCFs of these States had not been adequately filled for consideration. The SHEPs of the rest of the Six States were appraised along with their DCFs. The observations and recommendations of the TSG have been summarised in an Appraisal Note for each of the SHEP which are placed at Annexure 3A to 3F. 5 | P a g e AGENDA ITEM -4 Revisiting the decision of PAB taken in its 1st and 2nd meetings held on 06th November, 2013 and 12th March 2014 regarding approval of 60 Model Degree Colleges at an financial out lay of Rs. 238.5 crore for 12th Plan Period. The Project Approval Board in its 1st and 2nd meetings held on 06th November 2013 and 12th March 2014 had approved a proposal of 60 New Model Degree Colleges during 12th Plan with an outlay of 238.5 crore, state-wise as per Annexure 5. Out of this, Rs.177 crore were released for 45 New Model Degree Colleges to Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Tripura. The funds for remaining 15 Model Degree Colleges (08 in the State of Karnataka, 04 in the State of Kerala and 03 in the State of Uttar Pradesh) could not be released because Karnataka could not submit revised Detailed Project Reports for the MDCs, the proposals of Kerala and Uttar Pradesh for 04 and 03 MDCs respectively were rejected on account of non-fulfilling the criteria. Meanwhile the proposals for 07 new MDCs (02 from Punjab, 01 from Nagaland, 02 from Manipur and 02 from Himachal Pradesh) have been received. In view of this it is proposed that PAB may please consider revisiting its earlier decision taken in its 1st and 2nd meetings to approve 60 new MDC and revise it as the approval of 45 new MDCs for an outlay of Rs. 177 crore to the States to whom the finances have been released i.e. Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Tripura. The assistance for remaining 15 new MDCs may be given to other States on merit after processing their proposals. The matter is placed before PAB for consideration and approval. Approval Sought The Project Approval Board may consider and approve release of funds to the states of Gujarat, J&K, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Manipur to the extent of support sought by them under the RUSA components for the financial year 2014-15 as proposed in Annexure 3. 6 | P a g e ANNEXURE I FUNDS RELEASED Non NER States Amount Released Sl. States Component Component No Date State wise Total wise Total Preparatory Grants 24-02-2014 ₹ 325,00,000 Andhra 1 Model Degree Pradesh Colleges (7) 24-02-2014 ₹ 2555,80,000 MMER Grants 31-03-2014 ₹ 28,80,800 ₹ 2909,60,800 Preparatory 2 Bihar Grants 24-02-2014 ₹ 260,00,000 MMER Grants 31-03-2014 ₹ 2,60,000 ₹ 262,60,000 Preparatory 3 Chattisgarh Grants 10-03-2014 ₹ 260,00,000 MMER Grants 31-03-2014 ₹ 2,60,000 ₹ 262,60,000 Preparatory 4 Goa Grants 10-03-2014 ₹ 195,00,000 MMER Grants 31-03-2014 ₹ 1,95,000 ₹ 196,95,000 Preparatory 5 Gujarat Grants 24-02-2014 ₹ 325,00,000 MMER Grants 31-03-2014 ₹ 3,25,000 ₹ 328,25,000 Preparatory 6 Haryana Grants 10-03-2014 ₹ 260,00,000 MMER Grants 31-03-2014 ₹ 2,60,000 ₹ 262,60,000 Preparatory Himachal 7 Grants 24-02-2014 ₹ 360,00,000 Pradesh MMER Grants 31-03-2014 ₹ 3,60,000 ₹ 363,60,000 Preparatory Jammu & 8 Grants 10-03-2014 ₹ 360,00,000 Kashmir MMER Grants 31-03-2014 ₹ 3,60,000 ₹ 363,60,000 Preparatory 9 Jharkhand Grants 10-03-2014 ₹ 195,00,000 MMER Grants 31-03-2014 ₹ 1,95,000 ₹ 196,95,000 Preparatory 10 Karnataka Grants 24-02-2014 ₹ 325,00,000 MMER Grants 31-03-2014 ₹ 3,25,000