Institutions of Eminence: Why govt has not yet selected 14 out of 20 IOEs

The government is in a quandary because the body it tasked with picking deserving universities has done more than it was asked to

The Government of India launched the  Institutions of Eminence (IoE) initiative in 2017. It sought to pick 20 IOEs – 10 public and 10 private universities – to break into the ranks of the top 500 institutions worldwide.

In July 2018, based on the Empowered Experts Committee (EEC) recommendations, the government selected six IOEs (three public and three private):

IISc Bengaluru

IIT Bombay

IIT Delhi

BITS Pilani

Manipal Academy of Higher Education

Jio Institute
 

In the process, the government left out five public universities also recommended by the EEC: IITs Kharagpur and Madras, Delhi University, Jadavpur University and Anna University.

In the first week of December 2018, the