PGIMER Chandigarh is India's second-best medical educational instituion
Union Minister of Human Resource Development, Ramesh Nishank Pokhriyal, on Thursday, released “India Rankings 2020” of the Institutions of Higher Education in various categories on the basis of their performance on five broad categories of parameters. Meanwhile, the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh is the country's second-best medical college after Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
The HRD Minister released the India Rankings 2020 virtually in 10 categories. Meanwhile, the Minister of State for HRD, Sanjay Dhotre was present during the announcement.
This is the 5th edition of India Rankings of the institutions of higher education in India. The HRD Minister said that these rankings are a guide to students for the selection of universities based on a set of criteria and help universities to improve their performance on various parameters and identify gaps in research and areas of improvement.
He further added that the Ranking of Institutions at the national level instill a competitive spirit amongst the institutions to perform better and secure a higher rank in the international ranking.
Pokhriyal also said that the HRD Ministry has taken this initiative of creating the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), which is being used for the past 5 years and it is indeed a source of encouragement for all of us.
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Ramesh Nishank Pokhriyal also said that in an order to provide the facility of online practicing in the time of coronavirus crisis, NTA has recently launched the National Test Abhyas app for JEE and NEET students and around 65 lakhs students have already downloaded the app for practicing the online test.
-PTC News
