New Delhi, March 24: India will need at least 800 more universities and another 35,000 colleges in the next ten years to increase the percentage of students going for higher education from the present 12.4 per cent in the country, India’s HRD Minister Kapil Sibal said here Wednesday.
“India has about 480 university and about 22,000 colleges.
If we were to increase that figure of 12 per cent to 30 per cent, we will need another 800 to a thousand universities in the next ten years. We will need another 35,000 colleges in the next ten years…we are still below 40 per cent which I think is critical,” the Human Resource Development (HRD) minister said.
Sibal was speaking at the first contact group meeting of Parliamentarians for Education of the UNESCO South Asia Cluster, in which delegates from Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka and other south Asian countries participated.
–PTI