Basant Kumar Mohanty | 24 July 2024 | The Telegraph
The University Grants Commission (UGC) will face drastic funds cut as the government wants to reduce the regulator’s authority to deal with grants for
public universities.
The budget for 2024-25 reduced the allocation to UGC to ₹2,500 crore from ₹5,360 crore in 2023-24. The UGC, among other things, has been providing grants to central universities for various expenses and to state universities for infrastructure.
The commission also implements certain fellowship schemes, including the Junior Research Fellowship (JRF), under which it provides allowances to research scholars…