• M.YUVARAJ

India is reasonably proud of operating one of the Largest higher education systems in the world. Accordingly to the Latest statistics, there are 216 central and State Universities as well as deemed to be Universities, 110 autonomous colleges and 7600 affiliating colleges. The total number of teachers is 3.00,000 and student enrolment has reached 50.00.000 which goes up at the rate of 4.5% per annum (NAAC, 1995). The enormous size of the system is comparable with the vastness of the system in USA and India now can claim that her higher education has reached the masses with an access to a higher education institution within a radius of average 100 kms. The total outlay on University and higher education by the year 1993-94 has been Rs.1310 -crore constituting 12.29% of the total expenditure on education. Although the financial input is higher education has increased about 10 times during the last four and half decades. There is a resource crunch and most of the amount is now spent for running the system rather initiating new programmes to the desirable extent. The complexity in the system is more evident than its vastness due As per the concurrent list the Central Government had to set up a number of Institutions and Implement many Programmes for promotion of Languages. Social sciences and general science. Although Radhakrishnan Commission favored taking higher education a concurrent subject it was felt desirable to put the entire education is the concurrent list. The Kothari commission also is a sense accepted is principle making education a concurrent subject. Lastly as per the Constitutional Amendment of 1976. Education has been included for the Concurrent List with far fetching administrative and substantive financial implications.

Universities ,Five year plan, Women’s Education, Educational Research, Curriculum Commission, Programmes.

"GROWTH OF HIGHER EDUCATION", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 8, page no.f859-f863, August-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2208594.pdf

"GROWTH OF HIGHER EDUCATION", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 8, page no. ppf859-f863, August-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2208594.pdf