New Delhi: On December 13, 2025, the Union Cabinet tried a snout that will completely transpiration the structure of higher education. Now there will be no three separate regulators in the country. The University Grants Commission (UGC), the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), and the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) will be gone forever. They will be replaced by a single powerful and modern institution—the Higher Education Commission of India (HECI).
New name and new law
This major transpiration will be implemented through the Ripened India Education Monitoring Bill. This is the most important step of the National Education Policy 2020. A similar snout was introduced in 2018 but was stalled due to opposition from the states. Now the Center has removed all the concerns and got it passed.
Four variegated parts of HECI
HECI is divided into four self-sustaining units so that all the power is not in one hand and transparency is maintained.
These four parts are
- National Higher Education Regulatory Council
- National Accreditation Council
- General Education Council
- Higher Education Grants Council
There will be a well-spoken semester of responsibilities between them—regulation, quality checking, standard setting, and funding will remain separate.
What will be the goody to students and colleges
There will no longer be a wait of years in starting new courses and new colleges. All approvals will be received from one place. Uniform and modern rules will wield to all institutions. Colleges will get a lot of self-rule in the way of teaching, syllabus, and research. Paperwork and self-indulgence will automatically reduce.
What will remain outside
Medical and law studies will still remain outside the telescopic of HECI. They will protract to have their own separate regulators.
The way forward
Now this snout will be presented in Parliament. Once passed, the decades-old problems in India's higher education system will end forever. The country will take a huge step forward towards rhadamanthine a ripened India by 2047.
