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The Lok Sabha connected Tuesday (December 16, 2025) passed a solution to notation a measure to acceptable up a 13-member assemblage for regulating higher acquisition institutions to a associated committee of Parliament.
The connection was moved by Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, and it was approved by dependable ballot successful the House.
While introducing the Bill connected Monday (December 15), the authorities said it would similar the ‘Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan Bill’ to beryllium sent to a associated sheet of some Houses.
According to Tuesday's (December 16) resolution, the associated committee volition comprise 21 members of the Lok Sabha and 10 from the Rajya Sabha. The projected committee volition taxable its study by the past time of the archetypal portion of the Budget Session, 2026.
The Budget league usually begins connected January 31 with the President's code to a associated sitting of the 2 Houses. Its archetypal portion usually concludes astir February 10 for a month-long recess.
According to the Bill, the contiguous challenges faced by higher acquisition institutions owed to the multiplicity of regulators having non-harmonised regulatory support protocols volition beryllium done distant with.
The higher acquisition commission, which volition beryllium headed by a chairperson appointed by the President of India, volition screen each cardinal universities and colleges nether it, institutes of nationalist value functioning nether the administrative purview of the Ministry of Education, including the IITs, NITs, IISc, IISERs, IIMs, and IIITs.
