Autonomy is a situation in which the learner is totally responsible for all the decisions concerned with his [or her] learning and the implementation of those decisions.Autonomy is a recognition of the rights of learners within educational systems.

The challenges associated with education autonomy are Growth disparity and access to opportunity: socially, India remains highly divided access to higher education is uneven with multidimensional inequalities in enrolment across population groups- geographies. Our narrowly specialised institution of excellence such as IITs IIMs and AIIMs, and IISc serve less than 0.5 percent of the total students enrolled in colleges and universities -out of 35 candidates appearing for CAT, only close to one candidate is admitted in IIMs. Out of 65 candidates, one is selected for IIT course.