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emphasis on relevance and matching education and research with the needs of the development and economy. Even in the field of higher education, every pursuit must have purpose. Excellence too must satisfy the test of relevance. The goal of higher education is not to award degrees only on the basis of indifferent instruction and dubious and unreliable system of education. The goal rather is to develop the younger people of the country in such a manner that they not only have a satisfying personal life but can also make a worthy contribution to the progress of the society to which they belong. The institution of higher education is a platform to provide all round development of the students intellectual, physical, moral and spiritual; development of the mind, body, heart and personality; disseminate knowledge, promote skills and develop outlook so as to produce young persons who are intellectually alert, physically strong, morally upright, aesthetically sensitive, socially committed and economically self reliant. Higher education is a sector of crucial importance in the overall development of the countries. In the developing countries, the relevance of its contribution to national development transcends the narrow notion of only preparing persons for the current and anticipated labour market. There is the other dimension of higher education as the ágenerator and preserverâ of the intellectual and cultural resources of a country and as a medium which sustains the flow of knowledge, technology, inventiveness. In the education policies of the countries, higher education should be viewed as an integral part of national development. Development not only as economic growth, rather it comprehended áopportunities to allâ people for better life, with mass as the end of development and the instrumentâ. Higher education and development are linked in a variety of ways. First, education is a human right, the exercise of which is essential for individual development and fulfillment. The individualâs capacity to contribute to societal development is made possible and enhanced by his or her development as an individual. In this higher education is also a basic need. It is also a means by which other needs, both collective and individual, are realized. Then, education is the instrument by which the skills and productive capacities are developed and endured. All these interrelationships of education and development are inseparable from the conceptions of educational policies. The role of education is socio-economic development, has been
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