(a) the criteria adopted for sanctioning grants to State
universities;
(b) whether the State universities as compared to the
Central Universities are getting less grants from the
University Grants Commission;
(c) if so, the factual position in this regard; and
(d) the action proposed to be taken to enhance the grants to
the State universities so that they could meet their
requirement?
MINISTER OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (SHRI ARJUN SINGH)
(a) to (d) : A statement is laid on the Table of the House.
STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) to (d) OF THE
LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO.118 DATED 13.7.2004 ASKED BY
SHRI SUSHIL KUMAR MODI, M.P., REGARDING GRANTS TO STATE
UNIVERSITIES
(a) to (d): According to the information furnished by the
University Grants Commission (UGC), a State University is
eligible to receive financial assistance from the UGC
provided it is recognized for Central assistance in terms of
Section 12(B) of the UGC Act. All eligible State
universities receive financial assistance from UGC under the
General Development Assistance Scheme on a plan-to-plan
basis. In addition, the universities are eligible to
receive grants for certain special schemes meant for
universities, provided they satisfy the conditions laid down
in the respective guidelines.
Central Universities are established by Acts of
Parliament and the State Universities by Acts of State
Legislatures. Development and maintenance expenditure of
Central Universities is met by the Central Government
through the UGC and that of the State Universities by the
respective State Governments. The UGC, as a supplement,
provides only the development grant to the eligible State
Universities as per the prescribed norms and subject to the
availability of resources. The parameters for considering
the proposals under special schemes for both the Central
Universities and State Universities are the same.
With a view to enhance development assistance to the
State Universities in the Xth Plan, an outer limit of
enhancement to the extent of 25% has been fixed, over and
above the IXth Plan allocation, in case of Central
Universities, whereas in the case of State Universities this
limit has been fixed as 50%.