Model degree colleges to come up in 56 districts

NEW DELHI: In the first meeting of the project approval board (PAB) for the Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan — the ambitious higher education programme to reinvigorate state universities — 56 new model degree colleges were approved in as many districts with a total outlay of Rs 672 crore.

Uttar Pradesh has got 29 model colleges, followed by eight each in Karnataka and Odisha, Andhra Pradesh (7) and Kerala (4).