The Parliamentary Standing Committee on HRD in its 172nd Report has recommended that our aim should be increase the access ratio to at least 20% by 2015, which could be the threshold limit for our remaining in global race as also for sustainable development of the Country.
The Tenth Plan had projected an increase of enrolment rate in higher education from 6 per cent to 10 per cent over the Plan period i.e. an increase of 4 percent. The Ministry has considered various options and proposes an increase of 5 percent in the gross enrolment rate over the 11th Plan period. The Approach Paper to the Eleventh Plan has proposed that the gross enrolment rate be raised by 5 percent as quickly as possible. This would amount to a very substantial increase in enrolment – by about 84 lakh students over a period of five years.
