Parliament Question: Financial crisis in Central universities

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION RAJYA SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 358 ANSWERED ON 25.03.2026 Financial Crisis in Central Universities 358 Shri Rajeev Shukla: Will the Minister of Education be pleased to state: (a) whether it is a fact that various Central universities in the country are facing huge financial crisis for the last three years; (b) if so, the details of request made by various universities to Government and other various subsidiaries during the last three years; (c) the details of the fund sanctioned to Central universities during the last three years, year-wise and University-wise; and (d) the details of fund utilised by these Central universities in academic and non- academic expenditure during the last three years? ANSWER MINISTER OF EDUCATION (SHRI DHARMENDRA PRADHAN) (a) to (d): A Statement is laid on the Table of the House. ****STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) to (d) OF THE RAJYA SABHA STARRED QUESTION No. 358 ANSWERED ON 25.03.2026 ASKED BY SHRI RAJEEV SHUKLA, HON’BLE MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT REGARDING FINANICAL CRISIS IN CENTRAL UNIVERSITIES (a) to (d): Ministry of Education releases block grant to University Grants Commission (UGC) under “Grants to Central Universities” on a quarterly basis which in turn allocates funds to Central Universities on a monthly basis, based on their realistic requirements, expenditure incurred during the previous year as well as availability of funds. UGC has informed that no financial crisis is reported by any Central University. The grants to 47 Central Universities under the administrative purview of the Ministry of Education have increased from ₹ 5,558.78 crore in 2015-16 to ₹13,579.73 crore in 2025-26 (as on 23.03.2026), registering an increase of over 144 %. During the last three financial years 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25, grants of ₹11,288.55 crore, ₹12,546.43 crore and ₹12,736.77 crore respectively were released to Central Universities. University-wise details of grants released during the last three years are provided in the Annexure. Further, all Central Universities maintain Internal Resource Generation (IRG) which provides additional financial flexibility to meet emergent or contingency requirements in accordance with institutional norms. ***Annexure ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) to (d) OF THE RAJYA SABHA STARRED QUESTION No. 358 ANSWERED ON 25.03.2026 ASKED BY SHRI RAJEEV SHUKLA, HON’BLE MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT REGARDING FINANICAL CRISIS IN CENTRAL UNIVERSITIES STATEMENT INDICATING GRANT RELEASED TO CENTRAL UNIVERSITIES DURING 2022-23 TO 2024-25 (Rs. in crore) S. NAME OF NAME OF CENTRAL FUNDS RELEASED NO STATES UNIVERSITY 2022-23 2023-24 2024-25 1 ANDHRA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF 13.08 112.08 149.00 PRADESH ANDHRA PRADESH 2 CENTRAL TRIBAL 9.00 44.17 55.35 UNIVERSITY OF ANDHRA PRADESH 3 NATIONAL SANSKRIT 76.94 75.92 74.82 UNIVERSITY 4 BIHAR C.U. OF SOUTH BIHAR 84.72 85.23 100.29 5 MAHATMA GANDHI 35.98 42.42 51.00 CENTRAL UNIVERSITY 6 CHHATTISGAR GURU GHASIDAS 153.00 253.83 228.60 H VISHWAVIDYALAYA 7 DELHI UNIVERSITY O F DELHI 812.43 955.29 840.64 7B UNIVERSITY COLLEGES OF 205.47 296.48 229.53 MEDICAL SCIENCE 8 JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA 577.20 564.16 613.26 9 JAWAHARLAL NEHRU 517.97 594.50 643.97 UNIVERSITY 10 SHRI LAL BAHADUR 71.64 81.10 84.15 SHASTRI NATIONAL SANSKRIT UNIVERSITY 11 CENTRAL SANSKRIT 309.77 350.15 341.00 UNIVERSITY 12 GUJARAT CU OF GUJARAT 111.40 164.07 160.00 13 HARYANA CU OF HARYANA 82.56 99.49 108.94 14 HIMACHAL CU OF HIMACHAL PRADESH 73.49 127.63 141.10 PRADESH 15 JAMMU & CU OF JAMMU 48.43 78.34 101.98 16 KASHMIR CU OF KASHMIR 55.40 50.54 54.50 17 JHARKHAND CU OF JHARKHAND 98.70 105.45 106.75 18 KARNATAKA CU OF KARNATAKA 57.98 81.35 88.49 19 KERALA CU OF KERALA 70.50 96.42 85.06 20 LADAKH CENTRAL SINDHU 0.09 11.71 17.86 UNIVERSITY 21 MADHYA DR. HARISINGH GOUR 172.53 185.70 179.44 PRADESH VISHWAVIDYALAYA 22 INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL 103.56 113.83 113.14 TRIBAL UNIVERSITYS. NAME OF NAME OF CENTRAL FUNDS RELEASED NO STATES UNIVERSITY 23 MAHARASHTR MAHATMA GANDHI 65.28 74.96 66.60 A ANTARRASHTRIYA HINDI VISHWAVIDYALAYA 24 ODISHA CU OF ODISHA 20.64 62.51 128.40 25 PUNJAB CU OF PUNJAB 65.94 80.94 97.72 26 PUDUCHERRY PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY 255.54 314.39 284.20 27 RAJASTHAN CU OF RAJASTHAN 84.07 87.81 93.65 28 TAMIL NADU CU OF TAMIL NADU 75.91 83.47 96.73 29 TELANGANA M.A. N. URDU UNIVERSITY 204.85 209.45 232.39 30 UNIVERSITY OF 386.88 357.15 378.18 HYDERABAD 31 THE ENGLISH & FOREIGN 117.14 163.13 127.00 LANGUAGES UNIVERSITY 32 SAMKKA SARAKKA TRIBAL 0.00 0.00 3.71 CENTRAL UNIVERSITY 33 UTTARAKHAND HEMVATI NANDAN 169.48 179.03 197.59 BAHUGUNA GARHWAL UNIVERSITY 34 UTTAR ALIGARH MUSLIM 1584.30 1575.48 1618.00 PRADESH UNIVERSITY 35 BANARAS HINDU 1681.92 1551.62 1600.34 UNIVERSITY 35 INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL 341.34 362.14 374.81 B SCIENCE-BHU 36 BABASAHEB BHIMRAO 98.86 120.31 108.00 AMBEDKAR UNIVERSITY 37 UNIVERSITY OF 504.60 602.61 583.50 ALLAHABAD 38 WEST BENGAL VISVA BHARATI 343.74 359.67 383.62 TOTAL (I) (NON-NER CENTRAL UNIVS) 9742.32 10754.54 10943.31 NER CENTRAL UNIVERSITIES 39 ASSAM ASSAM UNIVERSITY 183.06 215.47 223.70 40 TEZPUR UNIVERSITY 140.85 173.82 176.32 41 ARUNACHAL RAJIV GANDHI 134.23 143.18 150.07 PRADESH UNIVERSITY 42 MANIPUR MANIPUR UNIVERSITY 200.41 196.52 181.00 43 MEGHALAYA NORTH EASTERN HILL 285.02 312.29 294.00 UNIVERSITY 44 MIZORAM MIZORAM UNIVERSITY 191.82 238.24 242.10 45 NAGALAND NAGALAND UNIVERSITY 178.59 224.04 214.57 46 SIKKIM SIKKIM UNIVERSITY 116.50 165.32 191.00 47 TRIPURA TRIPURA UNIVERSITY 93.31 107.50 104.51 CSU, NER (Tripura) 22.44 15.50 16.19 TOTAL (II) (NER) 1546.23 1791.88 1793.46 GRAND TOTAL CUs (I+II) 11288.55 12546.43 12736.77 ***