Click to play videoNew Delhi: Consensus still seems to elude the approach to massive expansion in higher education being planned at the verge of finalising the ambitious 11th Five Year Plan to set up 30 central universities.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked the HRD ministry to put at abeyance all decisions regarding location of eight IITs and seven IIMs till a formal mechanism is evolved.
In an explicit direction to the HRD ministry, the PMO wants locations of these top institutes be put on hold till the 11th Plan is finalised.
National Development Council will meet on the December 9 this year to put its stamp of approval on the plan of the expansion planned.
The HRD ministry has already circulated a bill to establish 16 central universities and location of four IITs and one IIM have been fixed.
PM's intervention comes after the planning commission had also indicated that it wanted a more holistic plan to integrate research facilities with new educational institutes.
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