Summary:
In 2009, Yashpal Committee (YPC) for the Rejuvenation of the Higher education gave a sweeping recommendation for restructuring the higher education. Higher education has seen phenomenal quantity expansion in the last two decades. HECI should bring about some fundamental structural changes in higher education. When the edifice of higher education system rests on small, weak and fragmented colleges and universities, quality is bound to suffer. The YPC recommended creating National Commission for Higher Education and Research (NCHER) under which the various functions of the existing regulatory agencies would be subsumed..