Institutes of Eminence need a fair-checks.

Central government had announced to make 10 public and 10 private institution of global standards in 2016 budget . Only 6 universities have been chosen  as 'Institute of Eminence'(IEO) in two years . It seems that IOE is needed to see different perspectives .

After the prime-ministerial announcement , 114 institutions had applied under the said policy . Since select committee has not made the selection criteria public . On this basis , it can be said that the selection process has been done in biased and one-sided manner .

Any university gets years to be well-established . So , government should have given the permission to apply to only to well-establish university . Despite it , government did a mistake by giving the same opportunity to newly formed university .

Select committee ought to have followed the criteria of the ranking which is being followed by global ranking agency . This process give more importance to research . Along with this , it needs to keep international view of teachers , students and syllabus . Every subjects should have given equal weight-age in selection process . But selected institutions shows that the same has not been done . By selecting science and engineering institutions , subjects like humanities and social science have been ignored completely .

China had selected and made effort to evolve by selecting institutes related to research . So those institution has gained global standards . Only 300 universities have made their places in Q S Ranking out of 9000 higher education institutions . And out of these 300 , only 79 has been selected . Unfortunately Indian Select Committee has not chosen ant of these 79 institutions .

About 140 M Indian youth are going to enter in higher education in the coming decade . Only 3 institutions have been placed in top 250 universities in Q S Ranking 2018 . Indian government should learn from International Ranking Agency , and make a pace in selecting more than 6 institutes .