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News State-specific higher education index by FICCI-EY LISTS TAMIL NADU, DELHI, CHANDIGARH, HARYANA, AND KERALA AS TOP PERFORMERS T HERE IS A NEED FOR THE states to discover their own strengths and weaknesses; recognize their natural strategies; and devise their sub-national action plans for their journey towards good higher education. By 2030, India will be amongst the youngest nations in the world with nearly 150 million people in the college-going age group. By 2030, the already existing challenges for Indian higher education – access, equity and quality – will only be greatly exacerbated unless we significantly transform our higher education model. In this context, FICCI released a report called, statefocused roadmap to India's 'vision 2030'” during its annual Higher Education Summit this year on November 3 in New Delhi. Prepared in collaboration with EY, the report is an attempt to articulate an ambitious vision for higher education reform and lay out a roadmap to achieving it. Accordingly states have been categorized on basis of an index. Among key findings of the research report is the revelation that most UTs do not have universities and have less than 20 higher education institutes per lakh population whereas, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana have more than 60 institutes per lakh population. Similarly, Research Institutes with most number of publications are concentrated in a handful of states such as Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra