To improve the overall quality of private educational institutions is not an objective of the Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA). It is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS) launched in 2013, which aims at providing strategic funding to the eligible state higher educational institutions; improve the overall quality of the state institutions by ensuring conformity to the prescribed norms and standards and adopt accreditation as a mandatory quality assurance framework.