Higher education institutions (HEIs) must prepare to meet the emerging challenges in the education sector and make the younger generations ready to seize opportunities, Governor Jishnu Dev Varma said on Friday.

Addressing the conference on the role of higher education in making India a developed nation by 2047, organised by the Education Protection Society for India (EPSI), New Delhi-based not-for-profit agency and hosted by MNR University here, he said HEIs will play a central role in realising Government of India’s dream of a developed country.