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20 Fostering Social Responsibility & Community Engagement in Higher Education Institutions in India

7. National accreditation agencies (NAAC, NBA,) and National Ranking Framework
should include explicit indicators and weightage of community engagement in teaching
and research, as proposed in this document. This will encourage HEIs to undertake
community engagement seriously.
8. MHRD should ask all 15 Statutory Professional Councils to take urgent note of
the recommendations of this national framework on fostering social responsibility
in HEIs and align curriculum and pedagogy of those professional courses to these
recommendations soon.

9. Faculty assigned to operationalise & implement these recommendations should be
provided additional API scores to sustain their motivation and professional progression.
Community engagement activities in teaching and research, as recommended in this
national framework, should be given sufficient weightage in professional evaluation of
teachers, researchers and administrators.

10. MHRD may request Ministry of Corporate Affairs to include activities undertaken for
fostering social responsibility and community engagement by HEIs under the list of
eligible areas for receiving funds for CSR.

11. UGC may forward this National Framework to Ministry of Rural Development, Govt.
of India with a request that HEIs are involved in research, monitoring and training
functions for various development and welfare schemes of the national and state
governments.
12. Likewise, UGC may approach Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs to request that
MPLAD/MLALAD funds are made available to HEIs in their constituencies to
implement various proposals included in this document.

13. UGC may support a national centre to facilitate knowledge sharing, professional learning
and continuous monitoring of this national framework and its recommendations. Such
a centre can undertake systematic documentation of good practices and undertake new
publications and convene national and international conferences to further support
this initiative for ‘fostering social responsibility and community engagement by HEIs
in the country.