Question

State and aim of Tenth Plan with regard to higher education. What strategy is being followed to attain it?

Answer 1

Main features of the 10th Fiver Year Plan:
(i) It endeavoured to increase the enrollment of students in the age group of 18-23 years in higher education from 6% to 9% by the end of the plan period.
(ii) It emphasized on the strategy which focuses on increasing access, quality, and adoption of states specific curriculum modification and vocationalization and networking on the use of IT.
(iii) The strategy also focuses on distant, formal, non-formal and IT education.
(iv) There has been a significant increase in the number of universities and institutions, over the last 5 years, specializing in different areas.
(v) It also focuses on vocationalization, networking and the use of information technology in distant education.