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Q1

Match List I with List II:

List I (Body under the Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan Bill, 2025) List II (Principal function)
A. Regulatory Council 1. Fixing learning outcomes and minimum academic standards for programmes
B. Accreditation Council 2. Empanelling accrediting agencies and rating institutions
C. Standards Council 3. Funding centrally funded institutions
D. Ministry of Education 4. Minimum standards for setting up institutions, and graded institutional autonomy

Select the correct answer using the code given below.

  1. (a) A-2, B-4, C-1, D-3
  2. (b) A-4, B-2, C-1, D-3
  3. (c) A-4, B-1, C-2, D-3
  4. (d) A-1, B-2, C-4, D-3
Answer (b).

The Regulatory Council sets minimum standards for establishing institutions and grants graded institutional autonomy; the Accreditation Council empanels accrediting agencies and rates institutions; the Standards Council fixes learning outcomes and academic standards. The Commission has no funding power at all — money continues to flow through the Ministry of Education under the Financial Memorandum. (a) swaps the Regulatory and Accreditation Councils, the commonest confusion in this Bill; (c) hands learning outcomes to the Accreditation Council, which only accredits and rates; (d) makes the Regulatory Council the standard-setter and leaves establishment norms unassigned.

Q2

Consider the following statements about the scope of the Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan Bill, 2025: 1. Medical, legal and veterinary education remain outside the ambit of the proposed Commission. 2. Architecture is brought within the Commission's ambit, and the Council of Architecture survives only as a professional body with representation on the Councils. 3. The Bill would repeal the National Medical Commission Act along with the UGC, AICTE and NCTE Acts. 4. Only universities set up by a central or State Act may be authorised to confer degrees. Which of the statements given above are correct?

  1. (a) 1 and 2 only
  2. (b) 1, 2 and 4 only
  3. (c) 2 and 3 only
  4. (d) 1, 3 and 4 only
Answer (a).

Medical education stays with the National Medical Commission, legal education with the Bar Council of India, and veterinary education is likewise excluded; architecture comes in and the Council of Architecture loses only its regulatory powers. (b) statement 4 is wrong — institutions specially empowered by Parliament, and others authorised by the Regulatory Council with prior central-government approval, may also confer degrees; (c) statement 3 is false, the Bill repealing only the UGC Act 1956, AICTE Act 1987 and NCTE Act 1993; (d) repeats both errors together.

Q3

Assertion (A): The Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan Bill, 2025 does not deliver the full higher-education regulatory architecture that NEP 2020 envisaged. Reason (R): NEP 2020 proposed four verticals — regulation, accreditation, funding and standard-setting — whereas the Bill creates three Councils and leaves funding with the Ministry of Education. Select the correct answer using the code given below.

  1. (a) Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A
  2. (b) Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A
  3. (c) A is true, but R is false
  4. (d) A is false, but R is true
Answer (a).

NEP 2020 designed a Higher Education Commission of India with four verticals, the funding vertical being the Higher Education Grants Council. The Bill creates only Regulatory, Accreditation and Standards Councils; the missing funding vertical is the central criticism of it. (b) understates the link — the absent fourth vertical is precisely why the architecture is incomplete; (c) misreads R, which correctly states the four-vertical design; (d) misreads A, which is true because PRS still records the Bill as being in committee with three Councils.

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