Integrated Biometric Identification System and Quality Assurance in Higher Education System of India

Statistics show that 18% of the world's population and 65% in of India, are youth. So India stands to gain from the ‘youth bulge’. The working population of India is expected to grow by more than 47 million by 2020. This gives us a great opportunity, but the opportunity can be capitalised only if the powers of youth is harnessed properly (Dibyasundar, 2010). This is a great responsibility upon the shoulders of higher education (HE) to make this workforce a trained and capable to make the country a superpower. To douse a quality output from this force we have to put into operation a quality induced system of HE which makes our youth attuned with new trends and also there should be a system which can monitor and coerce the youth to be serious for their future endeavours. The use of integrated biometric identification system (same as Multipurpose National Identity Card (MNIC) project of the Indian Government which began on February, 2011) in the same way HE can make a powerful, flexible and strong system which will provide borderless study opportunity across the country and overseas, and make the whole world an enormous class room, according the catch phrase of Swami Vivekanand ‘Vasudhaiv Kutumbakam’. On the other hand, this will compel the students to be more earnest towards their values and discipline in HE. This electronic system will reduce the paperwork in between the Institutes of HE in India.