India has over 250 million school-going students, the most of any country. It has over 39,000 colleges and 900 universities enrolling 36.64 million students. The government has launched several initiatives to improve education like linking universities to villages, establishing innovation labs, and skill development programs. Recent developments include $1.75 billion in foreign investment in education since 2000 and plans to raise $15.52 billion from private sources to improve infrastructure. The sector is projected to adopt new approaches and have 50% enrollment by 2030 with many top global universities and annual R&D spending of $140 billion.
3. Number of Colleges - 39,050
Number of Universities - 903
Students Enrolled - 36.64 Million
Gross Enrollment Ratio Reach - 25.8%
2017-2018
INDIA
4. India has become the second largest country
in e-learning after the US.
The sector is expected to reach US$ 1.96
billion by 2021with around 9.5 million users.
5. 1. In August 2018, Government of India
launched the second phase of ‘Unnat Bharat
Abhiyan’ which aims to link higher educational
institutions in the country with at least five
villages. The scheme covers 750 such
institutions.
Government Initiatives
6. 2. In August 2018, Innovation Cell and Atal
Ranking of Institutions on Innovation
Achievements (ARIIA) were launched to
assess innovation efforts and encourage a
healthy competition among higher.
Government Initiatives
7. 3. NITI Aayog is launching the Mentor India
Campaign which will bring leaders and
students together at more than 900 Atal
Tinkering Labs in India, as part of the Atal
Innovation Mission. As of June 2018, 5,441
schools have been selected across India for
establishing Atal Tinkering Labs (ATLs)
under the Atal Innovation Mission (AIM).
Government Initiatives
8. 4. The Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat (EBSB)
campaign is undertaken by Ministry of
Human Resource Development to increase
engagement between states, union
territories, central ministries, educational
institutions and general public.
Government Initiatives
9. 5. In order to boost the Skill India Mission, two new
schemes, Skills Acquisition and Knowledge
Awareness for Livelihood Promotion (SANKALP)
and Skill Strengthening for Industrial Value
Enhancement (STRIVE), have been approved by the
Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA),
Government of India, with an outlay of Rs 6,655
crore (US$ 1.02 billion) and will be supported by the
World Bank..
Government Initiatives
10. 6. Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi launched the Skill
India initiative – ‘Kaushal Bharat, Kushal Bharat’.
Under this initiative, the government has set itself a
target of training 400 million citizens by 2022 that
would enable them to find jobs. The initiatives
launched include various programmes like: Pradhan
Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY), National Policy
for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship 2015, Skill
Loan scheme, and the National Skill Development
Mission.
Government Initiatives
11. Recent Dvelopments
1. The total amount of Foreign Direct Investments
(FDI) inflow into the education sector in India stood
at US$ 1.75 billion from April 2000 to June 2018,
according to data released by Department of
Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP).
12. Recent Dvelopments
2. Indian education sector witnessed 18 merger
and acquisition deals worth US$ 49 million in 2017.
13. Recent Dvelopments
3. The Ministry of Human Resource Development,
Government of India is also planning to raise
around Rs 1 lakh crore (US$ 15.52 billion) from
private companies and high net worth individuals
to finance improvement of education infrastructure
in the country.
14. Recent Dvelopments
4. India has signed a loan agreement with World
Bank under 'Skills Acquisition and Knowledge
Awareness for Livelihood Promotion' (SANKALP)
Project to enhance institutional mechanisms for
skills development.
15. Recent Dvelopments
5. Singapore is going to open its first skill
development centre in Assam, which will provide
vocational training to youth in the region.
17. ● Adopt transformative and innovative
approaches in Higher education.
● Have an augmented Gross Enrolment Ratio
(GER) of 50 per cent.
● Have an augmented Gross Enrolment Ratio
(GER) of 50 per cent.
● Have more than 20 universities among the
global top 200.
18. ● Emerge as a single largest provider of global
talent, with one in four graduates in the world
being a product of the Indian higher education
system.
● Be among the top five countries in the world in
terms of research output with an annual R&D
spent of US$ 140 billion.
19. Training division has seen a large group of changes and
enhanced monetary costs as of late that could change the
nation into an information safe house. With human asset
progressively picking up centrality in the general
advancement of the nation, improvement of instruction
foundation is required to remain the key concentration in
the present decade. In this situation, framework interest in
the training area is probably going to see an impressive
increment in the present decade.
