Higher Education Secretary Amit Khare (Pic: PTI) Higher Education Secretary Amit Khare on Friday reiterated one of the new National Education Policy's major reforms stating that the union government plans to merge all the higher education regulators including the University Grants Commission (UGC) and All Indian Council for Technical Education (AICTE) to create a single education commission in 2021. "When will these changes come — you will see them in 2021 itself. In the education sector, you have UGC, then for technical courses (you have) the AICTE, for teacher education, there is NCTE — all of them will get merged. And in the next academic session we'll be having one single Higher Education Commission of India," Khare said at the FICCI annual convention on Friday, according to several reports.