RUSA portal to track state’s plans of higher education

The Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) is going to launch a portal, which is a one-stop for higher education plans, decisions and information on resources of states.

The portal for Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA), will be launched by the HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar on Monday.

Education Ministers of 12 states, secretaries, RUSA nodal officers will be among others present at the event.

Seventeen RUSA projects will also be launched digitally at the event. They include a cluster university in Jammu and Kashmir, micro ATM facility at the RUSA centre for intelligent systems in Pune University, solar power facility in Shree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady, Kerala; language laboratories in Ghatsila College, Jharkhand, among others.

Javadekar will also launch the Fund and Reform Tracker for this centrally sponsored scheme. The mobile application will ensure that all projects under RUSA are tracked 24x7.

The State Higher Education Departments undertake certain governance, academic and administrative reforms as a pre-requisite to be entitled for RUSA grants.

WHAT IS RUSA

• RUSA is the centrally-sponsored scheme of the Department of Higher Education
   
• HRD aims to provide strategic central funding to State Higher Education Departments
   
• The aim is to achieve the broad objectives of excellence