Institutions of Eminence (IoE) Scheme | 06 Sep 2019

Recently, the Ministry of Human Resource Development has declared 5 public Universities as Institutions of Eminence (IoE).

• The institutes are:
  
  • IIT Madras
  • Banaras Hindu University
  • IIT Kharagpur
  • University of Delhi
  • University of Hyderabad
• Earlier, in the first round under the IoE scheme, 6 institutions were selected as IoEs.
• Benefits of being included in Institutions of Eminence (IoEs) includes:
  
  • Government Institutions to get additional funding upto 1000 Crore.
  • Complete academic, administrative as well as financial autonomy.
  • Exemption from government approvals for Academic collaborations with foreign higher educational institutions (in top 500)
  • Freedom to hire personnel from industry
  • Freedom to recruit faculty from outside India (limit of 25% of its faculty strength for public institution).
  • Freedom to have own transparent merit based system for admission of students.
  • Freedom to admit additionally foreign students on merit (maximum of 30% of the strength of admitted domestic students).
  • Freedom to offer courses within a program as well as to offer degrees in newer areas.
  • Freedom to have the flexibility of course structure.
  • Flexibility in fixing of curriculum and syllabus, with no UGC mandated curriculum structure.
  • Freedom to offer online courses as part of their programmes(But not more than 20% of the programme)
  • University Grants Commission (UGC) inspection shall not apply to Institutions of Eminence.

Source:PIB