2019 – Posted in: Press Information Bureau

Institutions of Eminence (IoE) Scheme

(Ministry of Human Resource Development)

WHAT

The Ministry of HRD has taken various steps to implement the scheme of Institutions of Eminence (IoEs).

INSTITUTIONS OF EMINENCE

The government is committed to the improvement of the quality of higher educational institutions. In this regard, the government intends to establish 20 ‘Institutions of Eminence’ to achieve world-class status, from amongst the existing government/private institutions and new institutions from the private sector.

OBJECTIVE

To provide for higher education leading to excellence and innovations.
To engage in areas of specialization to make distinctive contributions to the objectives of the university education system.
Provide for high quality teaching and research for the advancement of knowledg.

BENEFITS

Government Institutions to get additional funding upto 1000 Cr.
The selected Institutions under IoE shall have complete academic and administrative autonomy.
The Institutions of Eminence will have complete financial autonomy to spend the resources raised and allocated, subject to general conditions & restrictions of the Statutes and GFR.
Academic collaborations with foreign higher educational institutions (in top 500) would be exemptfrom government approvals.
Freedom to hire personnel from industry, etc, as faculty who are experts in their areasbut may not have the requisite higher academic qualifications.
Freedom to recruit faculty from outside India (limit of 25% of its faculty strength for public institution).
Flexibility in fixing of curriculum and syllabus, with no UGC mandated curriculum structure.
Freedom to enter into academic collaborations with other Institutions within the country.
Freedom to have own transparent merit based system for admission of students.
Freedom to admit additionally foreign students on merit subject to a maximum of 30% of the strength of admitted domestic students.
Freedom to fix and charge fees from foreign students without restriction.
Freedom to determine the domestic student fees, subject to the condition that no student who gets selected admission is turned away for lack of finance. Every Institute to encourage scholarships and extension of loans facility.
Freedom to offer courses within a program as well as to offer degrees in newer areas, including inter-disciplinary ones, after approval of its Governing Council and conforming to the minimum prevailing standards.
Freedom to have the flexibility of course structure in terms of number of credit hours and years to take a degree, after approval of their Governing Council and conforming to the minimum prevailing standards.
Freedom to offer online courses as part of their programmes with a restriction that not more than 20% of the programme should be in online mode. Certificate courses can entirely be through online mode.
Students enrolment capacity to be 10,000 in 15 years. (Lower figure permitted with justification)
Faculty Student Ratio should be 1:20 at the time of Notification and should increase to 1:10 in five years.
UGC Inspection shall not apply to Institutions of Eminence.

Source: PIB