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A measure to acceptable up a higher acquisition regulator which volition regenerate bodies specified arsenic the UGC and AICTE was approved by the Union Cabinet connected Friday (December 12, 2025), officials said.
The projected authorities which was earlier christened the Higher Education Commission of India (HECI) Bill has present been named Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhikshan Bill.
The azygous higher acquisition regulator which was projected successful the caller National Education Policy (NEP), looks to regenerate the University Grants Commission (UGC), the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE).
"The measure to acceptable up Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhikshan has been approved by the Cabinet," an authoritative said.
While the UGC oversees non-technical higher education, the AICTE oversees method acquisition and the NCTE is the regulatory assemblage for teachers' education.
The Commission is projected to beryllium acceptable up arsenic a azygous higher acquisition regulator, but aesculapian and instrumentality colleges volition not beryllium brought nether its ambit. It is projected to person 3 large roles -- regulation, accreditation and mounting nonrecreational standards.
Funding, which is seen arsenic the 4th vertical, is not projected to beryllium nether the regulator truthful far. The autonomy for backing is projected to beryllium with the administrative Ministry.
The conception of HECI has been discussed earlier successful the signifier of a draught bill. A draught Higher Education Commission of India (Repeal of University Grants Commission Act) Bill, 2018, which sought to repeal the UGC Act and provided for the mounting up of the Higher Education Commission of India, was enactment successful the nationalist domain successful 2018 for feedback and consultation with stakeholders.
Renewed efforts to marque the HECI a world were past initiated nether Dharmendra Pradhan, who took implicit arsenic the Union Education Minister successful July 2021.
Underlining the relevance of a azygous higher acquisition regulator, the NEP-2020 papers says, "The regulatory strategy is successful request of a implicit overhaul successful bid to re-energise the higher acquisition assemblage and alteration it to thrive."
It adds that the caller strategy should guarantee the chiseled functions of regulation, accreditation, backing and world modular mounting are performed by distinct, autarkic and empowered bodies.
