Salient Features
- Provides grants to strengthen universities and colleges.
- Establishes multidisciplinary education and research universities.
- Focuses on districts rather than individual institutions, based on criteria such as GER (Gross Enrolment Ratio), gender parity, and SC/ST/OBC representation.
- Beneficiaries: State institutions in focus districts.
- Implementing Authority: National Mission Authority, Project Approval Boards.