7. The experiences of participants indicated the need for facilitating sustained involvement of colleges and other institutions of higher education, in partnership with civil society, to contribute to planning, monitoring and evaluation of various centrally sponsored schemes of the government. It was recommended that the Planning Commission may convene a meeting of such focal ministries to deliberate on such options. Annexure 1 No.M-12015/20/2011-HRD Planning Commission Yojana Bhavan, Sansad Marg, New Delhi-110001 Dated: 14th September 2011 ORDER Subject: Formulation of the Twelfth Five Year Plan (2012-17) – Sub-committee Strengthen Community Engagement of Higher Education Institutions – regarding. In recent years, higher education has isolated itself from the society resulting in breakdown of this vital social contract. There is a need to launch a campaign to re-establish and strengthen higher education’s close linkages with the society through a well-coordinated approach going way beyond the prevailing National Service Scheme (NSS). Universities and colleges should be encouraged to engage more intensively than before with wider society and contribute to the local and regional development and provide intellectual leadership to society. Therefore in terms of decision taken in the meeting of the Steering Committee for Higher Education and Technical Education on 25 August 2011 to constitute sub-committees on cross-cutting issues, it has been decided to set up a Sub-committee to Strengthen Community Engagement of Higher Education Institutions. The composition of the Sub-committee is as under -
7. The experiences of participants indicated the need for facilitating sustained involvement of colleges and other institutions of higher education, in partnership with civil society, to contribute to planning, monitoring and evaluation of various centrally sponsored schemes of the government. It was recommended that the Planning Commission may convene a meeting of such focal ministries to deliberate on such options. Annexure 1 No.M-12015/20/2011-HRD Planning Commission Yojana Bhavan, Sansad Marg, New Delhi-110001 Dated: 14th September 2011 ORDER Subject: Formulation of the Twelfth Five Year Plan (2012-17) – Sub-committee Strengthen Community Engagement of Higher Education Institutions – regarding. In recent years, higher education has isolated itself from the society resulting in breakdown of this vital social contract. There is a need to launch a campaign to re-establish and strengthen higher education’s close linkages with the society through a well-coordinated approach going way beyond the prevailing National Service Scheme (NSS). Universities and colleges should be encouraged to engage more intensively than before with wider society and contribute to the local and regional development and provide intellectual leadership to society. Therefore in terms of decision taken in the meeting of the Steering Committee for Higher Education and Technical Education on 25 August 2011 to constitute sub-committees on cross-cutting issues, it has been decided to set up a Sub-committee to Strengthen Community Engagement of Higher Education Institutions. The composition of the Sub-committee is as under -
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