Vol. 5, Special Issue 4, Part I (2019)

Abstract
Education places an important role in overall development of individuals thereby contributing immensely to the overall development of a country. Education system all over the world has gone through a dramatic change. Higher education system plays an important role for the country, overall development which includes industrial, social, economic etc. Indian higher education system is the third largest in the world. The system has many issues of concern at present, like financing and management, adequate infrastructure, technology and research, access and equity, safeguarding of national academic standards, ethical relevance, improvement and enhancement of quality of higher education together with assessment of institution and their accreditation. Under–investment in libraries, information technology, laboratories and class rooms makes it very difficult to provide top quality instruction or engage in cutting edge era. These issues are important for the country, as it is now engaged in the use of higher education as a powerful tool to build knowledge based information society. At present there is a vast need to analysis critically over higher education system and to measure for making India a knowledge based democratic and wisdom society.