National Rankings Framework Announced
the ranking exercise to submit their
applications in the given format by 31st
December. The Ranking Agency will
then extract the relevant information
from this data and through software,
compute the various metrics and rank
institutions based on this data. This
process should be completed in about 3
months, and rankings published ahead of
the next year's admission schedule,”
says the NIRF document.
Also, a two-category approach is
proposed to ensure that an institution is
compared with an appropriate peer
group of institutions, and provide a
level-playing field to all. “In the early
stages of its work, it became clear to the
Core Committee that a single ranking
framework for such a complex scenario
of institutions would be
counterproductive, and even
meaningless. This led to the conclusion
that a ranking framework should be
designed that enables an apple-to-apple
comparison,” writes Surrender Prasad ,
Chairman, National Board of
Accreditation Member, Core Committee
member in the preface of released
documents.
The process of framing NIRF began on
October 9, 2014 when the MHRD
ordered setting of a core committee for
this purpose. As a result, a 16-member
committee comprising Secretary (HE),
MHRD (as chairperson),
vicechancellors of Delhi University, EFL
University, Hyderabad,
Central
University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar,
JNU, New Delhi , directors of IITK h a r a g p u r , I I T- M a d r a s , I I M
Ahmedabad,
IIM Bangaluru, NIT,
Warangal, Telangana, School of
Planning & Architecture, ABV-IIITM,
Gwalior, IISER, Bhopal, NAAC,
Bangalore and Chairperson, NBA, New
Delhi Member besides
additional
secretary (TE), MHRD, was formed,
which after several sittings and
exchanges finalized the framework. It
may be mentioned that the terms of
reference of the Committee were to
suggest a National Framework for
performance measurement and ranking
of i. Institutions; ii. Programmes; and
also to recommend the organizational
structure, institutional mechanism and
processes for implementation along with
time-lines of the National Ranking
Framework besides mechanism for
financing of the Scheme on National
Ranking Framework and linkages with
NAAC and NBA Y