IIT Madras name recommend for the 'Institute Of Eminence' Tag

IIT Madras name recommend for the 'Institute Of Eminence' Tag

Names of 24 more higher education institutes have been recommended by the Empowered Expert Committee (EEC) for the 'Institute Of Eminence' Tag. The EEC committee is headed by the former election commissioner N Gopalaswami and consists of names 12 from each public and the private sector. If granted the tag then these institutes will receive a government grant of INR 1000 crore for the next five years. Along with the money, these institutions will be given greater autonomy in comparison to the other higher education institutes. The public institutes recommended by the committee include IIT Madras, IIT Kharagpur, Delhi University, Jadavpur University, Anna University, Banaras Hindu University, Tezpur University, Savithribai Phule Pune University, University of Hyderabad, Aligarh Muslim University, Panjab University and Andhra University. The private institutions include VIT Vellore (Tamilnadu), Jamia Hamdard University (Delhi), Shiv Nadar University (Uttar Pradesh), Azim Premji University (Karnataka), and Ashoka University (Haryana) among others. In the first list, the EEC committee recommended 8 public sector institutes of which three were given the IoE tag. The government also approved 3 private sector institutes for the same. On Friday, EEC submitted its second report in which it recommended 2 more institutions from the public category and 7 from the private category. EEC has identified 5 more institutions from each category which for now have been kept in the reserve list. A statement from Ministry of Human Resources Development said that EEC has recommended that all the 15 institutions from each category should be approved for the IoE status.

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