: Performance in impacting quality of education will be criteria for granting autonomy to Universities. The institutions with good ranking will have 100% autonomy, average institutes will have 50% autonomy and bad performers would have only 10% autonomy in their working. Mr. Prakash Javadekar, Union Minister for HRD, Government of India, has announced that universities will be granted an autonomous status based on the National Institutional Ranking Framework and National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC).