Achievements of higher education in the post independence Era: Issues, challenges & emerging trends in regional perspective

The Post Higher Secondary Education is known as Higher Education in India. In the long past the institution of higher education has been given an important position in the Indian society. The importance of education as an instrument of social transformation and refinement of the individual is widely acknowledged. India's higher education system, originally designed to serve the elite, will now have to serve the people.

Quality and relevance of higher education has always been at the focus of every civilization and even today it is the only effective means of social reconstruction for sustainable economic development. It is well known that in India education suffers from exclusion of and discrimination against the underprivileged. The question of access to education at all levels has been one of the deficiencies of the Indian education system.