ABSTRACT
The higher education in India, which was laboriously built during the first four decades after independence, is systematically being dismantled by both the neoliberal forces from outside and educational business entrepreneurs from within, with the connivance of the political class in power and also in opposition. As the integration of the Indian economy with the global economy proceeded further by the 1990s, the educational system, particularly higher education, started experiencing severe jolts. The dismantling of Indian higher education that began in the 1980s gathered momentum in the 1990s all over India. Since an analysis of all these bills is not possible, a few of them are taken up in this discussion to bring out the trends in higher education at the present juncture and the efforts underway to dismantle publicly funded higher education. It is in pursuance of these objectives that the Ministry proposed the establishment of the National Commission for Higher Education.
