The centrally sponsored scheme aims at providing strategic funding to higher educational institutions throughout the country.
For higher education University Grants Commission (UGC) has a provision for routine innovation and development fundings.
Thus a larger number of higher institutes run by state governments, which are limited in their own management, are not provided with sufficient financial support to enhance their facilities for educational reforms.
Therefore, a separate scheme for state/UT-managed universities and colleges was proposed by the National Development Council (NDC) as part of the 12th Five-Year Plan in 2012.
The major objectives are to:[5] RUSA is provided by the central Ministry of Human Resource Development directly to the state and UT governments.