Nagaland, Manipur, Arunachal fail to feature in first HRD university ranking
Morung Express News
Dimapur | April 4
Nagaland State is still out of reckoning in University and Higher Education studies, as per the ‘India Rankings 2016,’ a first of its kind indigenous survey of educational institutions in the country, released by the Union HRD Minister, Smriti Irani on April 4.
The survey featured a list of top 100 institutes in Engineering, Management, Pharmacy and traditional Universities category. The ranking was done by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF).
“The final framework identified nearly 22 parameters in five major heads, several of them are similar to those employed globally such as excellence in teaching, learning and research” the NIRF Report noted adding that a few are India-centric parameters relevant to the Indian situation.
The parameters broadly cover five categories: “Teaching, Learning and Resources,” “Research and Professional Practices,” “Graduation Outcomes,” “Outreach and Inclusivity,” and “Perception”.
Top performers across categories
The Indian Institute of Science Bangalore was adjudged the best University in India, and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras topped theengineering category. The Indian Institute of Management, Bangaluru (IIM-B) and Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Manipal bagged the top slots in Management and Pharmacy respectively. In engineering, IITs occupy the top 10 slot, while the IIMs capture most of the top 10 positions in Management category.
Nagaland and North East
While Nagaland, Manipur and Arunachal do not feature in any category, Assam and Meghalaya have performed outstandingly. Assam has Tezpur University at 5th, Gauhati University at 22nd, Dibrugarh University at 74 and Assam University, Silchar at 77. IIT-Gauhati and NIT Silchar ranked 11th and 65 in the engineering category, while Tezpur university ranked 27th in management.
Meghalaya was represented by the North Eastern Hill University at 15th slot in the University category while Rajiv Gandhi Indian Institute of Management, Shillong was number 20 in management. National Institute of Technology (NIT), Shillong is 57th in the Engineering list.
Tripura is represented by NIT Agartala and Tripura University at Engineering and University categories respectively, while Sikkim and Mizoram Universities feature at 51st and 61st positions.
Non- performances
The poor performance of the State’s institutions, especially the NIT Chumoukedima is more glaring since most others NITs feature in the list and admissions are done with an All India Entrance Exam.
A faculty of the institute reasoned that it is the youngest institution in the category and has only graduated two batches so far. The present campus was shifted in 2012 to the present location after two year of mentoring from NIT Silchar and had to start from scratch, he added.
Agartala and Silchar were upgradation of previous institutes, he maintained while appreciating the NIT Shillong’s achievement as both fall under the same category. Internally, he admitted that while NIT Chumoukedima has adequate infrastructure facility, lack of delegation of works might have impacted its performances as a cohesive entity.
