The Prime Minister’s office asked the human resource development ministry to fast-track a plan to set up 10 private autonomous universities for research and innovation.
The move could pave the way for world-class private institutions for higher studies to come up in the country.
These institutes, unlike the current lot of private universities regulated by the University Grant Commission, will be free of government control and have their own curriculum and fees. They will have full autonomy in hiring faculty and all other aspects of administration, sources said.
On the lines of Stanford and Princeton universities in the US, these universities will provide students modern infrastructure for research and innovation in different fields, including information and technology, medicine, agriculture and biotechnology.
