Asian Journal of Multidimensional Research (AJMR)

  • Year: 2017
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue: 5

Policy and Programe of Higher Education in Haryana

  • Author:
  • Shyam Sunder Prasad
  • Total Page Count: 9
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 56 to 64

Research Scholar, Department of Public Administration, KU, Kurukshetra, India

Abstract

Higher education enhances people's abilities to make informed decisions, produce technology, adopt and adapt technology, sustain livelihoods, cope with shocks, be healthier, be responsible citizens, and be more effective stewards of natural resources. It is the quality of higher education that decides the quality of human resources in a country. The first National Policy on Education was promulgated in 1968 by the government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and the second one by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1986. Higher education includes teaching, research, exacting applied work and social services activities of universities. In terms of the level, higher education includes college and university teaching-leaning towards which the students progress to attain higher education qualification. The policy also encouraged the teaching of the ancient Sanskrit language, which was considered an essential part of India's culture and heritage. To be eligible students should belong to SC category of Haryana Domicile and should be a regular student of the institution.

Keywords

Occupies, Contemporary, Increasingly, Decisions