The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NACC) is in the process of preparation of an action plan for each State of the North-East for performance evaluation, assessment and accreditation of higher education institutions. Prof V. N. Rajshekharan Pillai, director of NACC which is an autonomous institution under University Grants Commission, said that NAAC has conducted seminars in different states in the past 10 months to prepare state-wise as well as a national action plan with an objective to promote awareness of quality assurance in higher education system.

Delivering the key-note address at a two-day national seminar-cum-workshop on “Improvement of Quality of Education in Nagaland” inm Kohima, jointly organised by Nagaland University and NAAC, Prof Pillai said this initiative, taken through the collaboration of higher education departments and varsities of various states, would be completed in the next few months. In the North-Eastern region, seminar-cum-workshops were held in Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur and Tripura to formulate the action plans for these states and the deliberation here would prepare a plan on the same line for Nagaland, he said.