Accordingly the University Grants Commission (UGC) on Friday released the list of 20 institutes of higher education being considered for the coveted tag. Meanwhile the UGC had initially recommended 30 institutes for the honor but had to trim the list down to 20 after the central government’s directions. Bengaluru’s Azim Premji University, however, which was on the UGC's list of 30 institutes has now been dropped.
Furthermore the UGC has also stated that Tamilnadu’s Anna University, though ranked 13th at the All-india level for the year 2019, will be considered for the tag after with the state government. Reportedly private universities Amrita vishwa Vid consultation yapeetham and Vellore Institute of technology Tamilnadu have been recommended for the issue of Letters of Intent. Apparently Azim Premji University and the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) both in Bengaluru, KREA University of the Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR) and Andhra University have been dropped from UGC’s radar to confer the IoE tag.
Moreover from the south, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru has already been declared as an IoE. Perhaps the UGC has recommended Indian Institute of technology, Madras and University of hyderabad to be declared as IoEs and Manipal Academy of Higher education, Manipal has already been selected and given a Letter of Intent. Perhaps the other institutions named then by the central government were IIT-delhi, IIT-Bombay, IISc Bengaluru, Birla Institute of technology and Science, Pilani and Manipal Institute of Higher education, Manipal.
