No major gains in higher education under NDA govt, reveals AISHE report

Criticism levelled against govt is that it failed to allocate more funds to education sector in past three years

The All-India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) for the year 2016-17, released on Friday, revealed the rates of growth of universities and colleges, and the number of students enrolled in the first three years of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government have been lower than in the last year (2013-14) of the previous United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government.

The number of universities in India was 723 in 2013-14, 760 in 2014-15, 799 in 2015-16 and 864 in 2016-17. The rates of growth of universities in 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17 were 8.4 per cent, 5.1 per cent, 5.1 per cent and