NET caters only those who wants to go for profession in higher education. Professionals like me in education have to go back to 02 decades back to flip flop pages of the core course books of the subject we happened to do PG, while I have devoted 20 years in the department of education and I could best be for someone to pursue research in educational issues. Where I find myself stronger in education,I have to opt for something,where I have lost my interests and confidence both.

I firmly believe that R&D in Education needs a complete facelift. We need a couple of institutions dedicated to research and innovation.We are till today only busy in copy-paste of what other countries are doing, so the changes are cosmetics.Findings and strategies are taken from foreign lands, and our own physical reality is kept into background. Education empowers when it has native contexts. Curriculum needs continuous revision thru R&D. Researches need to be encouraged.

Students should be motivated from the college level to do research. Other than big college and IITs, nowhere students even get a good lab visit during their course forget project work. As a first step, one semester of project work can be made must in college curriculum. Universities should be funded more as they are the torch bearer of research in humanities language other than science for which we have research institute and IITs. Overall funding in the research sector should be increased.

Choice of subject in UG & PG need to be as per the interest of the candidate. Premium science institute like ISC Bangalore too wants class XII students with maths as mandatory. Why is it assumed that a student with PCB would only go for Medical science. Kindly look into this issue.

Lack of funds for consumables Most of the funds given by UGC for colleges or universities for non-consumables or to purchase equipment. There is no funding for consumables like. Chemicals, reagents, solvents. Without fundings for consumables how research can be performed with equipments. Hence, sufficient amount of funds should be allotted for consumables also. Sufficient amount of funds should be allotted to repair and maintenance of the major equipments.

Honourable Minister, Thanks for providing a plateform to share thoughts. Hope it goes a long way to change certian things that seem to have stagnated. I find that the students desirous of going into research based studies are at times bogged down by the protocols of the institutes. For example, a class XII student with PCB desirous to take up undergraduation course in Biochemistry say in DU would not be able to do so as the college wants them to have PCMB in class XII. This is not correct.

Research should be patent oriented for socio-economic benefits. It will encourage people to do more research and think practically, rather than thinking hypothetically. A Hindi research journal will reach out to many people as compared to English journals.

Higher education is not in reach of all category persons of India.People from medium level and poverty line and below poverty line think only about "Roti,kapda and Makan" and their thinking about higher education is only for employment purpose due to their economic condition.So centre govt. must increase the scholarships amount and help to needy and intelligent students of India............

Research and innovation must begin from school. Pedagogy should be changed. Rote learning should be discouraged. Divergent thinking is required .

Do we seriously believe that all the compulsory research seminars, conferences are really being managed honestly and research scholars, lecturers are upgrading their skills necessary for higher education, Or a big Scam is going on everywhere citing UGC guidelines. Organisers charge hefty amounts in the name of registration, publication of ISBN research papers, wherein absentee scholars through their kith & kin, acquire certificates, others google the topics and formulate papers of no substance.