Bengaluru: In a move aimed at giving a push to the Centre’s ambitious National Education Policy (NEP), the State Government is mulling establishment of six research-oriented Universities, besides setting up ten Universities focussed on ‘teaching’ and 34 autonomous Higher Education Institutions in the next three years.
Speaking to presspersons after holding a high-level meeting with experts and officials from the Higher Education Department in the State capital on Monday, Deputy Chief Minister Dr. C.N. Ashwathnarayan, who is also the Higher Education Minister, said that a Task Force has already been formed to look into the possibilities of implementing the NEP.
