Are there any schemes that the council has evolved for providing equitable opportunities for higher education and scholarships?
The Council has a higher education scholarship fund for which we hope to collect 100 crores of rupees. The purpose is to finance all needy students and to promote the study of social sciences, humanities and basic sciences to which students are not attracted now. What kind of facilitating role the Council plays in order to provide inter-likages among state government, universities, colleges and other institutions of higher education? The Council has sponsored a large number of projects in order to generate critical studies on the state of education. They are being undertaken by established scholars and we hope they will form a major in put for policy formulation and academic reforms. Council plays the role of a coordinating agency and a facilitator for the dissemination of ideas. It also undertakes the task of building consciousness among the academic community about new schemes and programmes. In case of the introduction of the reformed undergraduate programme the Council conducted ab
