PM stresses on need to improve quality of higher education

Also, the country's share of global research and development investment is as low as 2.2 per cent, much lower than 9.2 per cent of China and 32.4 per cent of the US.

“The Directors of NITs have a very important contribution to make in our collective efforts to improve this state of affairs,” he stressed.

But at the same time, he said that the UPA government in its nine years of rule has laid special emphasis on education and the period has seen an “unprecedented expansion” of the education system at all levels - primary, secondary and higher.