The University of Kashmir has bagged 53rd position among the universities assessed in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF)-2019.
The results were announced by the ministry of humam resourcedevelopment (MHRD) on Monday.
The varsity has also bagged an overall ranking of 74 amongall the institutions (including universities, IITs etc.) assessed by the MHRDunder NIRF, the results published on the NIRF website reveal.
Last year, the Kashmir University had bagged 47th rank amongthe universities and 71 among all the institutions.
“Last year it was not mandatory for every institutionto apply for NIRF ranking and all the institutions were not in competition.This year all the Universities and other other IITs had applied for NIRFranking,” registrar Kashmir University said.
Last year, MHRDminister, Prakash Javadekar had said that it would be mandatory for publicinstitutes to participate in the ranking framework from 2019.
“Those public institutions which will not take part init will face fund cut,” he had said.
Jammu University which was last year accorded the autonomousstatus by the MHRD has got 74th rank among all the universities. However, JammuUniversity doesn’t figure in overall rankings list of all institutions.