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31 Mar Budget 2018: All infrastructure development in higher education to be now done only through HEFA loans

Posted at 17:42h in Media by Safe Software

Centrally funded institutions (CFIs) such as IITs, IIMs, NITs, IIITs and central universities will no longer receive budget grants for expanding and building new infrastructure. Instead, all infrastructure financing will be moved to the Higher Education Funding Agency (HEFA), which was set up by the...

31 Mar Cabinet approves establishment of Higher Education Financing Agency for creating capital assets in higher educational institutions

Posted at 17:37h in Media by Safe Software

The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has approved the creation of the Higher Education Financing Agency (HEFA) to give a major push for creation of high quality infrastructure in premier educational institutions. The HEFA would be jointly promoted by the identified...

31 Mar Higher Education Funding Agency (HEFA) approves projects for Rs. 2,066.73 Cr to six higher education institutions

Posted at 17:30h in Media by Safe Software

For providing additional funds for research and related infrastructure, Higher Education Funding Agency (HEFA), has started its operations. The HEFA Board had held its 2nd meeting today and approved projects for Rs. 2,066.73 Cr for six institutions – IITs Bombay, Delhi, Madras, Kharagpur, Kanpur and...

13 Sep With experiential learning, and soon, technological competence, the Great Lakes Institute of Management in Chennai is trying out a different approach to creating future managers

Posted at 13:27h in Announcements/News by Safe Software

A few months ago, Professor Bala Balachandran was driving his Tesla in Chicago when it suddenly developed a snag and came to a halt. When he called the company’s helpline, even as he was talking, Tesla’s mechanics remotely took control of the car and set...

13 Sep India’s premier B-school has devised a retooling strategy to stay relevant in the global village

Posted at 13:20h in Announcements/News by Safe Software

Earlier this year, the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) was ranked 24 in the Financial Times’s Global MBA Ranking 2016. It was the highest for an Indian institution, and it did not come as a surprise to many as IIMA, for the most part...

02 Aug No Indian Educational Institute Among Top 100 World Universities

Posted at 10:37h in Uncategorized by Safe Software

Yes, you read it right. At the moment, there is no Indian university that has joined the ranks of the top 100 colleges in the world. Let’s partner up with HEFA and change this! According to a former leading official of Delhi University, new heights...

16 Feb CANARA Bank Signs MOU with HRD Ministry to Start HEFA

Posted at 10:34h in Uncategorized by Safe Software

MUMBAI, FEB 16: Canara Bank on Thursday said it has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) to operationalise the Higher Education Financing Agency (HEFA). The Government, in a statement in September, had said HEFA would finance the civil and...

29 Feb Educationists Welcome HEFA

Posted at 10:50h in Uncategorized by Safe Software

Rajan Saxena, vice-chancellor, NMIMS University, also welcomed the move to set up the HEFA. "There has been a long-standing need for the establishment of HEFA which could finance both the institution and the student at interest rates which are lower than that of the commercial...

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