New Delhi: The University Grants Commission (UGC) has constituted Expert Visiting Committees to visit 168 Universities eligible to receive financial grants from it under the XI Five Year Plan. 30 Universities have already been visited.
At the beginning of each Five Year Plan, UGC sends the Expert Visiting Committees to all the Universities eligible to receive financial assistances from the UGC to evaluate their performance and implementations of schemes in the previous Plan period and to assess their financial requirements for the next Plan.
Under the General Development Assistance, it is proposed to increase General Development Grants approximately by 100 per cent over the X Plan for Central, State and Deemed Universities. The funds would be used for the improvement in infrastructure, building, campus, staff, library, equipment and others.
Also during the XI Plan, UGC proposes to merge the following schemes with General Development Grants Scheme. These include travel grants, conferences, seminars, symposia, workshops, publication grants, appointment of visiting professor. Apart from that the commission also provides special development grants for universities in backward, rural, remote and border areas.
Special grant provided for young universities and rejuvenation grant for old universities, Instrumentation Maintenance Facility, construction of women's hostels, basic facilities for women, faculty improvement programme, equal opportunity cell, coaching Schemes for SC/ST/OBC, minorities, establishment of career and counselling cell in universities, and facilities for differently- abled persons.
The allocation for these schemes would be made at the beginning of the XI Plan based on the recommendations of the committees. Therefore no separate application for each year of XI Five Year Plan is required for 16 merged schemes.
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