After a gap of 19 years, a report on education reforms under Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led NDA government authored by leading industrialists Mukesh Ambani and Kumarmangalam Birla is finding resonance again under the Modi government.

Critics and observers say that the education reforms being seen under the current NDA government like fee hike in universities, raising funds from internal accruals, depoliticisation of campuses and setting up of private and foreign universities are all recommendations of the Birla-Ambani or Ambani-Birla report that was presented in the year 2000 when Vajpayee was Prime Minister leading the then NDA government.

Many of the reforms happening now are a mirror image of the Birla-Ambani report presented 19 years back. K.K. Ragesh, CPM MP from Kerala stated that without saying that these recommendations have been accepted, the government is implementing them from the Birla-Ambani report.