Higher Education in India: Current scenario
An eminent number of universities in India very clearly depict the current scenario of higher education in India accompanied with the challenges faced by these universities implicating shortage of quality teachers, lack of funds, obsolete curriculum and wrong government policies creating an unmitigating difference between the hype around the higher education and the real picture of a handful of these universities. 
These challenges faced by the universities have given space to vacant posts of around 50% in the universities and colleges across the country whereas a large number of teachers are quitting their respective jobs due to the faulty government policies. Furthermore, due to the loopholes in selection procedures, most of these universities lack quality teachers.
NET (National Eligibility Test) and SAT are the only two exams to screen teachers and they only test the intelligence and wisdom of candidates. The communication abilities of candidates are ignored even though they are crucial for a teacher to impart quality education to his or her students.
In addition to these predicaments, the Center too adheres to a blatant and a harsh attitude towards the state universities restraining them from providing them with adequate funds. Furthermore , the withdrawal of clause of 12B in the UGC Act, that prescribes certain standards for universities for being eligible for funds, have been stipulated by them which deteriorates the situation even more, causing troubles to many new universities.
Regulatory bodies like UGC, the AICTE and the MCI are adding on to the deteriorating condition of higher education in India by stifling the growth of education garbing the regulating institutions by restraining them from functional freedom.
The very distinct and much talked about Foreign Exchange Bill could possibly pose a threat to India's higher education sector resulting into indirect invasion of the foreigners in to our country intellectually. The input of academicians is required more than that of politicians to form successful policies in the education sector of our country. These policies should play a catalytic role in transforming the present state of higher education in India for a better tomorrow.
Source: Madiha Jawed (Shiksha Team)