Archive · 23 Aug 2026
Madhya Pradesh To Report Progress On 28 Higher Education Actions
Madhya Pradesh has been asked to explain what it is doing to improve higher education.
The state must report on 28 action points.
These points include helping more students enter college and improving teaching quality.
They also include preparing students for technology-related jobs and increasing research.
The state says universities have many empty teaching positions.
Some vacancies are linked to cases in court.
Officials also worry that research and PhD quality needs to improve.
Madhya Pradesh plans to make Bhopal and Indore education hubs and has created 16 Centres of Excellence.
Madhya Pradesh’s Higher Education Department will submit an Action Taken Report on 28 national action points.
The points cover access, quality, technology training, internationalisation, research and industry-academia collaboration.
The department says 70-80% of university teaching posts are vacant, with many cases pending in court.
Officials also cited concerns over research quality, PhD standards and the shortage of professors for modern courses.
The state plans education hubs in Bhopal and Indore, a NAAC-support cell and 16 Centres of Excellence.
- Who
- Madhya Pradesh’s Higher Education Department, under an initiative of the Union Ministry of Higher Education.
- What
- It will file an Action Taken Report on 28 Higher Education action points.
- When
- The report is being prepared following the 5th National Conference of Chief Secretaries.
- Where
- Madhya Pradesh, including its universities and colleges; Bhopal and Indore are proposed as education hubs.
- Why
- The report will help identify solutions, support and coordination needed to implement the action points.
- Action points
- 28 points under the Higher Education: Knowledge Economy sub-theme.
- University vacancies
- The department official said 70-80% of posts are vacant in universities.
- Reported vacancy issues
- Many university vacancies are linked to matters pending in court, while colleges face roster-related problems.
- Research concerns
- The department identified weak research and innovation performance and concerns about PhD quality.
- Education hubs
- Bhopal and Indore divisions have been proposed as education hubs.
- Quality initiatives
- A special cell has been created to help institutions improve NAAC grading.
- Centres of Excellence
- The state has established 16 Centres of Excellence.