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universally acknowledged. It is also well established fact that higher education contributes towards the development of competencies required by a nation in all expects of life. It is higher education which prepares the human resource for the professions, for the administrative and defence services, for business and industry, for teaching and the health services and for leadership in all walks of life. In educational set-up higher education has special importance because it provides ideas and men to sustain all other facets and levels of education. The quality and pace of development of any nation depends on the ideological climate it is able to generate, the perceptions of history, culture, tradition and values a nation acquires and confidence it has in human capability to overcome problems of material and spiritual life. And, it is precisely rare that the intelligentsia and higher education have a unique role. Higher education supplies the wide variety of increasingly sophisticated and ever changing manpower. The self-reliant and endogenous character of an economy can only be maintained when competent people are available to foresee, plan and execute research and development activity necessary to keep us abreast of developments in the world. Higher education is of paramount importance for economic and social development. Institutions of higher education have the main responsibility for equipping individuals with the advanced knowledge and skills required for positions of responsibility in government business and the professions. These institutions produce new knowledge through research serve as conducts for the transfer, adoption and dissemination of knowledge generated elsewhere in the world, and support government and business with advice and consultancy services thus proving the capability to piller the national development. The important goal of national development can be said to be the enhancement of production accompanied by distribution of goods and services with a view to ameliorate poverty, create conditions of social justice and thus strengthen the foundations of a socialist and democratic state. The goals of national development translated in human terms imply the cultivation of a personality with knowledge and awareness not only in the special fields but also of culture, tradition and the needs of our people, a personality endoured with values which would promote socialism, national integration, secularism and scientific temper together with enthusiasm to change society through personal commitment and involvement. In other words, our concept of national development goes far beyond economic growth: the concern for creating a cohesive and vibrant nation out of people speaking different languages, professing
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