In the meeting of the Council of Ministers held under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, two important decisions were taken on Friday to strengthen higher education in the state. Under this, it has been decided to run 71 newly built/under construction colleges as government colleges, while the formation of Vivek University in Bijnor district has also been approved. These decisions will prove to be a milestone in the direction of providing quality and affordable higher education in the state.

State status to 71 colleges is a historic initiative.

After the meeting, Higher Education Minister Yogendra Upadhyay said that currently 171 government colleges are being run by the department. Out of these, 71 colleges are newly built or are under construction. Out of these, 17 were selected as constituent colleges. Earlier, these were run by universities. Recently, some universities have expressed their inability to run them smoothly. After this, a proposal was brought that the state government would now directly run 71 colleges. Till now, people have been employed on a contract basis, now 71 principal posts will be created in all 71 colleges and 1136 assistant professor posts, and 639 class three and 710 class four posts will be created based on 16 in each college. This will provide employment opportunities and will also increase the quality of education.

Vivek University will open in Bijnor

Higher Education Minister Yogendra Upadhyay said that Vivek University in Bijnor has been given the authority to operate. Now another private university will start operating in the state. This will promote healthy competition, which will further increase the quality of government universities. He said that in the last two and a half years, the highest-graded universities have emerged in UP. Currently, in the NAAC grading, 7 universities of UP are A double plus, 4 are A plus. Along with this, 6 private universities are A plus and 4 private universities have been included in A grade. He said that earlier no university of UP was even in the top 500. Today 3 universities of the state have come in the top 100. The minister said that the goal of the Yogi government is to open one university in each district of the state in the next 5 years.