Overview

• He said partisan appointments of vice chancellors have eroded leadership quality and stifled institutional autonomy.
• He described the NTA’s centralised entrance exams as a flawed overhaul of the IITs’ decades-proven JEE system.
• He reported that most students who study abroad now remain overseas and that foreign enrolment in Indian universities has collapsed to negligible levels.
• He warned that unchecked political influence and weak governance threaten academic creativity and India’s ambitions for higher-income status by 2047.
• He highlighted that the uneven expansion of new IITs and IIMs has diluted excellence and that quality primary education is essential to building a strong higher education foundation.