The University Grants Commission has issued Guidelines for Transforming Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) into Multidisciplinary Institutions. The Guidelines seeks to accomplish the following:
- Transform single-stream institutions into large multidisciplinary universities and autonomous degree-awarding HEIs.
- Strengthen institutional infrastructure necessary for multidisciplinary education and research.
- Academic collaboration between institutions, through HEI clusters, leading to multidisciplinary education and research in different modes.
- Merger of single-stream institutions with other multidisciplinary institutions under the same management or different managements.
- Strengthening of institutions by adding departments in subjects such as: Languages, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Indology, Art, Dance, Theatre, Education, Mathematics, Statistics, Pure and Applied Sciences, Sociology, Economics, Sports, Translation and Interpretation and other subjects as needed for a multidisciplinary institution.
