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Higher Education Bill 2025
December 18 , 2025
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- The Union government introduced the Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan Bill, 2025, in the Lok Sabha.
- The bill aims to reform India’s higher education regulatory framework.
- The Bill proposes a single overarching regulator by subsuming the University Grants Commission (UGC), All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), and National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE).
- The Bill provides for the establishment of the Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan as an apex body, along with three councils:
- Viksit Bharat Shiksha Viniyaman Parishad (Regulatory Council)
- Viksit Bharat Shiksha Gunvatta Parishad (Accreditation Council)
- Viksit Bharat Shiksha Manak Parishad (Standards Council)
- Institutions of National Importance like IITs, IIMs, National Institutes of Technology (NITs), and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) are explicitly included under the law.
- Sections 10 and 11 establish a Regulatory Council with powers over accreditation and compliance, while safeguarding institutional autonomy through future regulations.
- The Bill applies to central, state, private, deemed, affiliated, autonomous, technical, teacher, open, online, and foreign universities, linking statutory reform to the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.
- Lok Sabha refer a bill to set up a 13-member body for regulating higher education institutions to a joint committee of Parliament.
- The joint committee will comprise 21 members of the Lok Sabha and 10 from the Rajya Sabha.
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