new delhi mandatory aadhaar disclosure during the all india survey on higher education 201617 aishe revealed that there are over 80000 teachers who are faculty members of three or more higher education institutions in the country this was disclosed by the human resource development minister prakash javadekar at the release of the final aishe 201617 report on fridaythe hrd ministry has identified around 80000 ghost teachers in various colleges and universities across the country after the introduction of aadhaar so far 85 of the teachers have given their aadhaar numbers and the ministry believes that the number would increase when all the teachers complythere are certain ghost teachers who use proxy methods and are apparently teaching at multiple places as fulltime employees after the introduction of aadhaar 80000 such teachers have been identified and action will be taken against them javadekar saidthe minister however clarified that none of these teachers are from any central universities the ghost teachers have not been identified in any central universities but in some state varsities and private ones he saidthe hrd ministry has asked all varsities to seek aadhaar number from all employees and students to ensure that there is no duplicationsharing aadhaar number is like sharing your mobile number or email id sharing your mobile number doesnt mean the person you give it to can see your text messages aadhaar works the same way it is protected javadekar saidthe report also highlighted the growth in the sector as the gross enrolment ratio ger now stands at 255 as against 215 five years ago in last five years the ger of the muslims and other minority communities has been slow from 415 ger of the muslim youth age group of 1823 years in 201213 it is just 490 in 201617 similarly the ger growth for other minority groups has been 033 in the same periodthe survey also indicates that in last five years the student population of higher education between the age of 18 and 23 has increased by 35 lakh while there are just 93 colleges exclusively for girls there are 15 women exclusive universities across 10 statesthere has also been a significant increase in the number of universities and colleges in last five years with the state private and public universities having the biggest share among the colleges too majority of them are privately ownedbengaluru has emerged as the major education hub with the biggest cluster of colleges 1025 followed by jaipur and hyderabad with 635 and 487 colleges respectively the report statedthe survey covers almost all the higher education institutions across the country identified nodal officers from each institution are primarily responsible for collecting and uploading the data on aishe portal in a secured environment javadekar also launched gurujan a portal for information on teachers read this story in malayalam