If we look at the expenditure being made by the government on higher education, then it is clear that more focus of the government is on educating the population of the country or on primary education itself. There has always been a dearth of higher resources for higher education. Since the Fourth Five Year Plan, there has been a drastic reduction in higher education. During the fourth plan, 25% of the total education expenditure was spent on higher education,whereas in the ninth plan only 12% was spent

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