VBSA Bill to unify higher education regulation: Ex-UGC chairman Jagadesh Kumar
New Delhi, Dec 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) Former University Grants Commission (UGC) Chairman Prof. M. Jagadesh Kumar has hailed the government's move to introduce the Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan (VBSA) Bill as a historic transformation for India’s higher education sector. In an exclusive interaction with IANS, Kumar explained that the UGC, established in 1953 and accorded statutory status in 1956, along with the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE), will be merged into a single integrated regulator under the proposed framework.