The economic survey has proposed reforms in education from elementary to higher levels, including

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the regulated entry of high-quality foreign and rated domestic institutions to provide higher education.

There is a great need for replacement of bureaucratic controls in education by professional regulators along with private-public partnership in order to ensure universal primary education, the survey said.

For the poorer and weaker sections, the survey suggests the introduction of government-funded smart card-based payments to public sector providers of education. Also, it says that rating the quality of educational institutions and all education service providers, both, private and pub-lic, will be of help. The centre has been running schemes across primary, secondary, higher & technical education. It added six IITs, one IIM by the name of Rajiv Gandhi Indian Institute of Manage-ment during 2008-09. It states scholarships and fell-owships be enhanced for higher and technical edu-cation, encouraging R&D in all subjects. Increase in the number of such institutes, streamline ad-missions and ensure quality of student intake, it says.