The Government of India has proposed to establish 30 new central universities during the XIth Plan and the first two years of the XIIth Plan period to assist one college in each district with low Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in higher education.
In the first phase, one Central University would be established in each of the 16 states, which do not have a Central University, so far, including Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujrat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kasmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerela, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Uttarakhand. The targeted GER, as against the present level of approximately 10%, is at least 15% by the end of the XIth Plan and 21% by the end of the XIIth Plan.
