{"id":17924,"date":"2023-12-08T11:43:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T06:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=17924"},"modified":"2025-04-05T07:33:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T02:03:18","slug":"pm-usha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/pm-usha\/","title":{"rendered":"Pradhan Mantri Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (PM-USHA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Pradhan Mantri Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (PM-USHA)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was launched in 2013 as a\u00a0centrally sponsored programme to\u00a0improve access, equity, and quality in higher education\u00a0through the planned development of higher education\u00a0at the state level.<\/li>\n<li>It aims to work with 300-plus state universities and their affiliated colleges.<\/li>\n<li>Objectives:\n<ul>\n<li>creating new\u00a0academic\u00a0institutions,<\/li>\n<li>expanding and\u00a0upgrading the existing ones,<\/li>\n<li>developing institutions that are self-reliant\u00a0in terms of quality education, professionally managed, and characterized\u00a0by a\u00a0greater inclination towards research.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Funding:\n<ul>\n<li>It aims at providing strategic\u00a0funding to eligible state higher educational institutions.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The central funding is\u00a0based on norms and is outcome-dependent.<\/li>\n<li>Funds flow from the central ministry\u00a0through the state governments\/union territories\u00a0before reaching the identified institutions.<\/li>\n<li>Funding to states would be\u00a0made on the basis of the critical appraisal of State Higher Education Plans, which would enlist each state\u2019s strategy to address issues of equity, access, and excellence in higher education.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>PM-USHA places\u00a0greater emphasis on the improvement of the quality of teaching and learning processes in order to produce employable and competitive graduates, postgraduates and PhDs.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The programme focuses on state higher educational institutions and\u00a0draws upon the best practices\u00a0from colleges and universities\u00a0across the nation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) Who regulates Higher education in India?<\/h3>\n<p>Presently, higher education is regulated by the University Grants Commission (UGC) and 14 professional councils such as the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) and the National Medical Commission (NMC).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/bhubaneswar\/dharmendra-pradhan-writes-to-naveen-patnaik-for-implementation-of-pm-usha-scheme-in-odisha\/articleshow\/105818794.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Dharmendra Pradhan writes to Naveen Patnaik for implementation of PM-USHA scheme in Odisha<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pradhan Mantri Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan was launched in 2013 as a centrally sponsored programme to improve access, equity, and quality in higher education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}