Mangalore, February 28: Minister for Higher Education V.S. Acharya said here on Sunday that the Government is planning to increase the enrolment ratio of students between the age group of 18 to 23 in colleges from 13 per cent to 15 per cent by 2015 and to 30 per cent by 2020.
Dr. Acharya was addressing a gathering at the graduation day of the Karavali Group of Colleges. Dr. Acharya said 13 per cent of the youth in 18-23 age group were enrolled in 2,230 colleges in Karnataka.
The number of students who reached post-matriculation stage (that is, other than Degree but including PUC, ITI, polytechnics) was 25 lakh, a number which the Government wanted to increase to 50 lakh by 2020, he said. About 10 lakh students reached the undergraduate level in the State. The Government had set itself a target of increasing this to 20 lakh students by 2020, he said.
Dr. Acharya said the outlay for education had been increased from Rs. 4,400 crore last year to Rs. 12,280 crore this year. The State was being called “the knowledge hub of Asia,” he said.
Advising the students to learn continuously, he said: “Tune yourself to the fast changing world ,” he said. He said human resource was an important factor in developing any other resource. From two universities (Mysore and Karnataka) in the State in 1956, today there were 23 universities in addition to special universities such as Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) and the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), he said.
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